16 Oct
2000
16 Oct
'00
4:34 a.m.
Doug Salot <doug(a)blinkenlights.com> said:
Hey unamericans, any candidates for personal computers
made outside of the
US before 1976 (other than Micral)?
Define "personal computer" any way you like to as long as you define it
this way: digital, (semi)automatic, programmable, accessible/available,
small, inexpensive, and simpler than an F-14 fighter jet :-) Turing
completeness helps, but I'm flexible.
We this WOULD have have been a good opourtunity to talk about the 1971
English computer I received in the mail last Wednesday from the NE coast
of England.
I WOULD have said that it is a "Educational Analogue Computer Type
C180"
made by Physical & Electronic Laboratories Ltd. It has 18 amplifiers, 16
of which can be used as integrators. It my first general purpose analog
to use intergrated circuit amplifiers. The DIP 741 amplifiers are are in
beautiful all gold packages with date codes of 7105. And I have a
picture
at: http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog/c180.jpg
But, I'll save this for later.
The person I bought this computer from does have some newer digital
computers for sale. He has 18 Memotech MTX512s and other Memotech
stuff that he is hoping to sell as one lot. He also has Atari STs,
Amstrads, Amigas, Atari Lynxs, games for the Lynxs and VIC20.
See the whole list at:
http://www.theoldecomputerosityshop.freeserve.co.uk/Computers/Computers.htm
The Olde Computerosity Shoppe, Harlepool
contact: "john.masterman" <john.masterman(a)ntlworld.com>
--Doug
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Doug Coward
Press Start Inc.
Sunnyvale,CA
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