Crays and i432s (Was: RE: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (jus t for phun)) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Apr 2001

I wonder if the shrinkwrapped Cray-1 has one of those
shrinkwrap licenses... i.e. "By opening this package
you are agreeing to..." :)

BTW, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an i432... a
long time ago ('84?) I actually worked on one for a year or
so in an attempt to get it to do something useful. I
had some success, but was continually hampered by
having to run over to another building to use their
VAX as a cross-compiler.  Now that I have a VAX sitting
on my desk at home I imagine I could probably do quite
a bit more!  It was a unique architecture (quite a
bit ahead of it's time) but hampered by the lack of
provision for I/O (usually handled by a 8086
co-processor board) and the lack of a native OS based
development package.

-al-

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire@neurotica.com]
 Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:12 PM
 To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
 Subject: Re: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (just for phun)

   The likelihood of someone having six Apple 1s is similar to that of
 having an i432 dev system, the original 4004 mask set, an ibm 5100
 proto, an EDSAC1, or a shrinkwrapped Cray-1.  Or even possibly Steve
 Wozniak (hopefully in shrinkwrap) etc etc etc.

     -Dave McGuire

 On April 12, Lawrence Walker wrote:
   Was this a typo or do you really have 6 Apple
1's.

 larry

 > At 07:13 PM 4/10/01 -0400, THETechnoid wrote:
 > >I'd like to see some of your lists.  I bet some of you   would be
hard
  > >pressedd to list your whole collection
in a message that   the list server
  > >would accept (too large).
 > 
 > I don't have a lot of machines, but I do focus more on   quality than 
   quantity
after all:

 - i432 development system
 - the original 4004 mask set
 - IBM 5100 prototype
 - Apple I (qty 6)  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 > - EDSAC 1 (re-wired to run off 120V)
 > - CRAY-1 (mint; still in shrinkwrap)
 > - Steve Wozniak (mostly working, but sometimes needs   power cycling)
  > - Zuse Z1 (does anybody here have a copy of
the boot disk?)
 > - Analytical Engine running MSDOS 1.00
 > 
 > My wife is getting kind of pissed about having all this   stuff in the 
  > garage, though, so I might start trading
this stuff for   some calculators or
   something
smaller.

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