12 Apr
2001
12 Apr
'01
9:31 a.m.
I wonder if the shrinkwrapped Cray-1 has one of those
shrinkwrap licenses... i.e. "By opening this package
you are agreeing to..." :)
BTW, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an i432... a
long time ago ('84?) I actually worked on one for a year or
so in an attempt to get it to do something useful. I
had some success, but was continually hampered by
having to run over to another building to use their
VAX as a cross-compiler. Now that I have a VAX sitting
on my desk at home I imagine I could probably do quite
a bit more! It was a unique architecture (quite a
bit ahead of it's time) but hampered by the lack of
provision for I/O (usually handled by a 8086
co-processor board) and the lack of a native OS based
development package.
-al-
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:12 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (just for phun)
The likelihood of someone having six Apple 1s is similar to that of
having an i432 dev system, the original 4004 mask set, an ibm 5100
proto, an EDSAC1, or a shrinkwrapped Cray-1. Or even possibly Steve
Wozniak (hopefully in shrinkwrap) etc etc etc.
-Dave McGuire
On April 12, Lawrence Walker wrote:
power cycling)
Was this a typo or do you really have 6 Apple
1's.
larry
> At 07:13 PM 4/10/01 -0400, THETechnoid wrote:
> >I'd like to see some of your lists. I bet some of you
would be
hard
> >pressedd to list your whole collection
in a message that
the list server
> >would accept (too large).
>
> I don't have a lot of machines, but I do focus more on
quality than
quantity
after all:
- i432 development system
- the original 4004 mask set
- IBM 5100 prototype
- Apple I (qty 6)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> - EDSAC 1 (re-wired to run off 120V)
> - CRAY-1 (mint; still in shrinkwrap)
> - Steve Wozniak (mostly working, but sometimes needs > - Zuse Z1 (does anybody here have a copy of
the boot disk?)
> - Analytical Engine running MSDOS 1.00
>
> My wife is getting kind of pissed about having all this
stuff in the
> garage, though, so I might start trading
this stuff for
some calculators or
something
smaller.
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