10 Feb
1999
10 Feb
'99
3:03 a.m.
Doug wrote:
OK, my turn to brag. Today was a good day. I got:
a Commodore 128D
a Heathkit 8088 trainer
a few BYTE mags
and ... an Olson!
What's an Olson, you ask. It's a BYT-8 clone. What's a BYT-8, you ask.
It's an ultracool front-panel S-100 box originally sold by the Byte Shop
in Palo Alto around 1976:
IIRC, the Olson was marketed by Olson Electronics, and I used to go into
their Pittsburgh store each time I managed to get over there. Really nice
find!