3 Jul
1999
3 Jul
'99
8:33 p.m.
Nope . . . and I made a "high-tech tie-tack" out of my 8008. I just powered
the box down, pulled the processor out, removed the 8008, bent the pins
around so as not to damage a good silk bib, and super-glued the tack to the
back of it. . . That box, an NBI word processor, used those hard sectored
diskettes with the holes around the outside. EEEK!
regards,
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
At 05:15 PM 7/3/99 -0600, Dick wrote:
>That's the price you pay, so to speak, for participating in a free-market
>economy. The market determines what price the market will bear. If there
>are more rich dummies (If that's how you prefer to think of them) than
there
are Altairs or
4004's then you'll probably never own one.
Meanwhile, maybe I can get someone to slide me a few bucks for this old
stuff of mine . . .
Sure I'll slip you a few bucks. Got any 4004s around? :-)
Joe
4 Jul
4 Jul
8:40 a.m.
You should put the disk on E-OverPay if you still have it. I've never seen
one like that, I'm sure it's a lot rarer than the 8008! All you need is a
good write up full of hype!
Joe
At 07:33 PM 7/3/99 -0600, you wrote:
Nope . . . and I made a "high-tech tie-tack"
out of my 8008. I just powered
the box down, pulled the processor out, removed the 8008, bent the pins
around so as not to damage a good silk bib, and super-glued the tack to the
back of it. . . That box, an NBI word processor, used those hard sectored
diskettes with the holes around the outside. EEEK!
regards,
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, July 03, 1999 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: E-bay stupidity! was Re: height of folly
At 05:15 PM 7/3/99 -0600, Dick wrote:
>That's the price you pay, so to speak, for participating in a free-market
>economy. The market determines what price the market will bear. If there
>are more rich dummies (If that's how you prefer to think of them) than
there
are
Altairs or 4004's then you'll probably never own one.
Meanwhile, maybe I can get someone to slide me a few bucks for this old
stuff of mine . . .
Sure I'll slip you a few bucks. Got any 4004s around? :-)
Joe
6 Jul
6 Jul
2:01 p.m.
"Richard Erlacher" <edick(a)idcomm.com> wrote:
Nope . . . and I made a "high-tech tie-tack"
out of my 8008. I just powered
the box down, pulled the processor out, removed the 8008, bent the pins
around so as not to damage a good silk bib, and super-glued the tack to the
back of it. . . That box, an NBI word processor, used those hard sectored
diskettes with the holes around the outside. EEEK!
regards,
Dick
Hi
I wouldn't worry to much. The 8008, unlike the 4004 wasn't
the first anything. The Fairchild F8 was the first 8 bit.
The 8008 was claimed to be the first single chip ( first F8 = 2 chip )
but even the 8008 needed a specialize clock generator and
bus interface logic to decode and latch states.
I would say that the 8008's only claim to fame was
that it only made a short run and was replaced with
the more long lived 8080.
Dwight
I wonder how much my working 4004 development system would go
for. Not that I wish to sell!
Dwight
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