5 Feb
2002
5 Feb
'02
8:48 p.m.
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
If its old enough, ICL was once allied with Singer
(who made computer
equipment at the Singer/Friden plant in Good Old San Leandro)
Alas, all I have of a Singer computer is half an unpopulated circuit board
I found at a thrift (charity) store in the California central valley town
of Stockton.
I also have a couple Friden calculators, but I don't know where they would
have been manufactured. I have the EC1117 and the Friden 132. And probably
a couple others I can't recall right now.
I'm in the process (slowly but surely) of setting up a computer museum at
the ACCRC, and since it is in Oakland, will feature a primary exhibit of
computers produced locally (in the East Bay, as that area is called).
This would include Processor Technology (Berkeley and later Pleasanton),
Northstar (Berkeley), IMSAI and Singer/Friden (San Leandro), Osborne
(Hayward), Godbout/CompuPro (Oakland), and a couple I'm probably
forgetting.
Can anyone else from this area clue me in on others? I'm sure Peter can
name a few more.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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