30 Sep
2003
30 Sep
'03
1:13 p.m.
All,
OK, so I just got bombed with requests for the Digital Group
stuff. Which reminds me... what is/was so special about that
company (from Colorado, I believe) or their systems?
I used to have the whole nine yards of their stuff... about,
oh, 8 or 10 2cuFt boxes or so. The only thing I liked in the
system was that funky tape drive system... Phideck or something
like that. Threw it all away (...) when I moved to the U.S. in
'93, and had no more space in the shipping container :)
These docs were strange leftovers from that.. must have forgotten
to pack them at the time.
Cheers,
Fred
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30 Sep
30 Sep
2:51 p.m.
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
OK, so I just got bombed with requests for the Digital
Group
stuff. Which reminds me... what is/was so special about that
company (from Colorado, I believe) or their systems?
Nothing other than it was one of the very earliest of the homebrew kit
computer companies, and they made fairly wacky stuff, like the Phideck and
multiple processor systems. They're sort of on par with OSI in terms of
obscurity: not a whole lot of systems around.
It's too bad you tossed your hardware :(
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10:35 p.m.
Sellam wrote:
Nothing other than it was one of the very earliest of
the homebrew kit
computer companies, and they made fairly wacky stuff, like the Phideck and
multiple processor systems.
Yep, so I have learned since posting that. I got my
stuff from an
uncle, in late 1983 or so. He had a *very* ugly and badly assembled
kit (got it from a friend, I believe) and after fiddling with it for
a while, I decided I much more liked the AppleII (at school) and the
VIC-20 (at home) :)
It's too bad you tossed your hardware :(
Yeah... when I moved, we suddenly bumped into that stuff, and since
the container was about full, we decided to not move (read: toss) it.
We all make our stupid mistakes at some point.. my other mistake was
to let go of my 11/10 (school dumped it *for* me, grrr) and my 11/40's
and 11/34's. grrgrr.
I'd kill for a working 11/10 *sniff*
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1 Oct
1 Oct
3:06 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
I'd kill for a working 11/10 *sniff*
I have someone in mind...let's talk ;)
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6:45 a.m.
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
Agreed. And it's so obscure. Most of them was hand-built.
Wizard
OK, so I just got bombed with requests for the
Digital Group
stuff. Which reminds me... what is/was so special about that
company (from Colorado, I believe) or their systems?
Nothing other than it was one of the very earliest of the homebrew kit
computer companies, and they made fairly wacky stuff, like the Phideck and
multiple processor systems. They're sort of on par with OSI in terms of
obscurity: not a whole lot of systems around.
It's too bad you tossed your hardware :(
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