28 Sep
1998
28 Sep
'98
11 a.m.
At 03:31 PM 9/28/98 -0700, Marvin wrote:
As usual, the VCF was a lot of fun and a great chance
to put faces with many
of the names that appear on this list. Besides the neat collection of older
working computers on display, it seemed like most of the fun took place in
the swap area.
Seconded, thirded, etc...!
In the display area, The Computer Museum had a number of things including
the Apple I. When I was talking to Carol Welsh of the Computer Museum, she
indicated that someone had brought an Apple I to the VCF and sold it to
someone else for $2000. At the point that I talked with her, the other
person with her was trying to track down the parties involved.
Now, don't that make all of the people who did not attend REALLY sorry?
Someone made the comment that there were two varieties
of the Osbourne I,
and I gather that the difference was in the case (not talking about the
Executive, only the Osbourne I.) Anyone have any input on this? When I
checked mine, they were both like the one on display which was supposed to
be the older one but I'm not sure I've ever seen a One that looked any
different.
Check my web site. I have both variations. The early one came in the
brown (tan) vacu-form'd case. The later version came in a grey molded case
and usually had the double-density upgrade standard.
The tour of The Computer Museum at Moffet Field was
incredible. The
collection was what they called "Visible Storage" and they had about 2% of
their collection where people could take a look.
Yep! It was most cool. Many thanks to Sam for putting the tour together.
-jim
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