19 Jun
1998
19 Jun
'98
8:55 a.m.
Hard, I own 2 Robotron PCs (one Z80 CP/M system and one PC Clone),
but since I live in Muenchen (:), I'm not in the 'native Environment'
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of Robotron clasics. But maybe I could forward your questuons to some
>east German friends. Well, Hans, I *thought* you had to be Bavarian
(Bayerische)!! Either that
or perhaps Austrian because of your signoff ("Servus").
You're the first US citicen to recognize this :)
Will be over again in one year or more.
Great - give me a call (or a mail :) and I'll show yo usome
of my babys.
Great to have you on the list as I've not seen
postings of yours since the time I had joined last November until recently
I think.
I just joined two weeks ago after Sam Ismail pointed
me to the list (we had some discusion about VCF - I
will come to see it - and other strange things).
Good to have a person in our group who is nearby to
the Deutches
Museum who seems to have a very good early computer collection (saw it in
1994 or 95. Been there four times since '93).
You just searched a phon directory ? Didn't you ? Or
who told you that I live near the Deutsches Museum ?
True, my apartment is just 100m from the (back) entrance.
Their _very_ early collection - up to the Zuse - ist quite
good, but anything later is crap - or at least the display
is crap - I left the museum society because of the computer
displays. I'm especialy upset because they have _real_
unique things to show in a _unique_ way, but they just build
some junk place.
Ok, I have to be fair - the dispaly is quite amazing, but
in my opinion they ignored a lot of one-of-a-kind chances
just to finish it for the grand opening.
Example: they recived a _complete_ SIEMENS 2002, the first
fuly transistorized copmuter. Not only the main boxes -
they got _everything_ needed to show the machine complete,
including _all_ manuals, even spare parts. I think it would
have been possible to rebuild this marvelous machine and
power it up (ok, once) to show it. Maybe it is still possible,
but it has to be done soon - right now several of the old
tecnicans are still alive, but in ten years from now noone
will be here to tell the story.
Oh, next time when you visit the Deutsches Museum, take a
look at the Operator desk of the 2002 - you'll find a burned
spot, done by a cigarette. I know the guilty one - a friend
of mine, now retired, did it while they tried to find a power
up problem at the main drum - he acidently left his cigaret
at te desk and got so involved that he forgot it - BIG trouble.
Wish I knew enough German to
actually speak it but Bayerische is even harder to understand ;)
Amazing - I always had problems the other way.
Gruss! Bis spaeter, Chris
Jo bis nacha.
Servus
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK