8 Jan
1999
8 Jan
'99
6:06 p.m.
You guessed it the COSMAC Elf! And IIRC, the article
was "Build a COSMAC
Elf for Less than $100"
Anyone got the issue date?
August 1976 "for about $80"
CDP1802
64K addressable
On chip DMA
16X16 matrix of registers
Flexible I/O
Francois
--Chuck
8 Jan
8 Jan
6:07 p.m.
On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Chuck and Francois wrote:
Are you guys sure? I'm almost positive that was in Popular Electronics,
and not Popular Science!
I still say it was the ZX81. What do I win, Alex?
-- Doug
You guessed it
the COSMAC Elf! And IIRC, the article was "Build a COSMAC
Elf for Less than $100"
Anyone got the issue date?
August 1976 "for about $80" 
8:37 p.m.
Doug Yowza said...
|
|I still say it was the ZX81. What do I win, Alex?
I never saw that in a kit form...
8:48 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Miles O'Neal wrote:
|I still say it was the ZX81. What do I win, Alex?
I never saw that in a kit form...
Oh, really? That must mean that a kit is quite RARE, no? How much would
you pay for an UNASSEMBLED ZX81 KIT (L@@K, RARE!)? (I have an extra.)
The ZX81 was offered as both a kit and as assembled, but only the kit was
offered for the low low price of $99.
-- Doug
9:10 p.m.
Doug Yowza said...
|
|Oh, really? That must mean that a kit is quite RARE, no? How much would
|you pay for an UNASSEMBLED ZX81 KIT (L@@K, RARE!)? (I have an extra.)
I dunno, maybe $10.
-Miles
well, you *asked*...
9:29 p.m.
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9:36 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Seth J. Morabito wrote:
Well, for $35 you can buy a brand new original kit :)
Then resell
it on eBay for the big bucks, I suppose (if you're slimy. Not that
I'm judgemental about that sort of thing...)
Ahem. I intentionally didn't disclose this info. Now I'd like to make a
plea: will every collector on this list make a mad dash to purchase these,
even if you're only vaguely interested. There are members of this list
who do have a profit motive, and it's quite likely that the slimey
scenario Seth outlined above will occur unless you grab these while you
can (Bob: be a nice guy, and don't take advantage of this information).
-- Doug
7:16 a.m.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Marvin wrote:
This information has been posted here a number of
times dating from a year
or two or three ago.
This is the first time its been posted since dealers have joined the list
and ebay went public. A "normal" collector would never think to buy out
the entire supply and control the market, a dealer on the other hand....
-- Doug
7:32 a.m.
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8 Jan
8 Jan
9:40 p.m.
Seth J. Morabito said...
|
|Check out:
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| http://www.users.interport.net/~zebra/ts2/products/zx.htm
|
|They have a bunch of old kits, originals, they're selling for $35 each.
It's actually not a bad deal.
I just don't need one, and I've other things to spend $40 on
right now...
-Miles
For $10, I might have to
10:36 p.m.
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Miles O'Neal wrote:
Seth J. Morabito said...
| http://www.users.interport.net/~zebra/ts2/products/zx.htm
|
|They have a bunch of old kits, originals, they're selling for $35 each.
It's actually not a bad deal.
Dang - I love kits. You also get a free copy of "Basics of T/S BASIC"
and can get a Spanish language book for asking. I wonder if 'VU-VILE'
is a freudian typo.. Can't wait to start typing in a 3 page program
on the membrane.
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com
10:38 p.m.
I can vouch for these guys. I bought 3 of these about a year ago.
A
--
adavie(a)mad.scientist.com <mailto:adavie@mad.scientist.com>
visit the Museum of Soviet Calculators at
http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/slide/calculator/soviet.html
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From: CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu
[mailto:CLASSICCMP-owner@u.washington.edu]On Behalf Of cswiger
Sent: Saturday, January 09, 1999 8:37 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: Computer collector on Jeopardy!
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Miles O'Neal wrote:
Seth J. Morabito said...
| http://www.users.interport.net/~zebra/ts2/products/zx.htm
|
|They have a bunch of old kits, originals, they're selling for $35 each.
It's actually not a bad deal.
Dang - I love kits. You also get a free copy of "Basics of T/S BASIC"
and can get a Spanish language book for asking. I wonder if 'VU-VILE'
is a freudian typo.. Can't wait to start typing in a 3 page program
on the membrane.
Chuck
cswiger(a)widomaker.com
9:29 p.m.
I remember when some friends ordered the ZX-81 kit (Although I don't
remember if it had that designation). I think they had ordered 10 kits at
$99 each. They planned an assembly party.
The order arrived on a Friday so they all decided to crank up the assembly
line that night after dinner.
Finally the fateful moment arrived and they opened the box only to
discover a note in the box that they were out of kits and please accept
the assembled versions as substitutions.
Sorta killed the evening!
George
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Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
KD7DCX
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Miles O'Neal wrote:
|I still say it was the ZX81. What do I win,
Alex?
I never saw that in a kit form...
Oh, really? That must mean that a kit is quite RARE, no? How much would
you pay for an UNASSEMBLED ZX81 KIT (L@@K, RARE!)? (I have an extra.)
The ZX81 was offered as both a kit and as assembled, but only the kit was
offered for the low low price of $99.
-- Doug
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