Ops, I forgot you Jecel, sorry :) And I remembered you last weekend when
I found an Apple analog board I got to repair my Unitron 512...Interesting
that from the three known brazilian users, all of them live in Sao Paulo :)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jecel Assumpcao Jr." <jecel at merlintec.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Are there any brazilians on this list?
Alexandre,
Beyond me and the curator of the Museu do
Computador here in Sao
Paulo,
is there any brazilians on this list? :)
You sent me an email on November 10 saying "Hey, nice to see you are on
this list too" in Portuguese, remember? :-)
If there are any more of us here, I would like to ask if anybody has
technical details about machines like the Cobra 530 minicomputers. I
have learned much about all kinds of old machines, specially through the
documentation available in BitSavers. But the only local stuff I have
found was a non technical thesis about the "Patinho Feio" which cites
some technical texts about that and the G-10 machines. All other
information I have is from historical books and newspaper articles.
While it is interesting to read that the Cobra 530 was more advanced
than the other 16 bit minis of the time, I would rather judge for
myself. After all, they say more or less the same thing about Cobra's
SOX (Unix clone) and my experience with it was that it wasn't very good
at all.
-- Jecel
p.s.: a week ago a new science museum was opened in my town (S?o Carlos,
SP). Though it isn't that large, there is space that could be used to
have a computer museum and there are several people interested in making
that happen.