? ?"Rick Bensene" <rickb at
bensene.com> writes:
In any case, the sad part is that it appears at
least from a historical
standpoint that a lot of information about Magnolia (along with other
Tektronix forays into computer systems) are being lost to time.
I had a Magnolia go through my hands in the early 1990s but it was
missing its skins so it went to scrap. In that lot from Intel we got
an Alto, a Magnolia and several, about 8 original Xerox Stars (Xerox
8010s). Unfortunately I didn't know what the Magnolia and the Alto
were at the time so I didn't save them, one of the great regrets of my
life. I did get to play with the 8010s...lovely machines.
Later, I did get a set of 4404s and a set of the original Tektronix
software for them. I am planning on passing the SW onto another
collector, Jerry, for imaging as he has a 4404. I have a 4404 and a
4406 to go with the disks....and a bunch of the drive units. I also
have a Xerox 1108 AI workstation in storage that I got as part of the
collection.
Paxton
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Paxton Hoag
Astoria, OR
USA