1 Oct
2002
1 Oct
'02
6:43 a.m.
One thing I really regret is that I bought all of the parts to build an Elf
back when the Popular Electronics articles came out (I was only twelve at
the time) but never actually finished building it because someone my father
worked with gave me a KIM-1 that he no longer needed and it was more
interesting to use an already working computer than try to build one. I
kept all of the parts and the articles until I returned home from college
and then, gasp, threw them out. I really wish I still had them now so I
could build the Elf that I never finished. I guess I should just acquire
some 1802 chips and finish the job now.
I also regret trading in the KIM-1 along with a 8KB ram board and a SWTP
terminal that I built from a kit a year or two later for credit toward an
Apple II+ when they were brand new.
The mistakes of youth...
-Glen
From: "Jim Kearney" <jim(a)jkearney.com>
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Subject: Re: Attention 1802 fans...
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:05:14 -0400
I recently built an Elf, BTW: http://www.jkearney.com/elf. It's not going
into space anytime soon.
Jim
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1 Oct
1 Oct
7:26 a.m.
New subject: Mistakes of youth (Was: Attention 1802 fans...)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Slick" <glenslick(a)hotmail.com>
I
kept all of the parts and the articles until I returned home from college
and then, gasp, threw them out. I really wish I still had them now so I
could build the Elf that I never finished. I guess I should just acquire
some 1802 chips and finish the job now.
I also regret trading in the KIM-1 along with a 8KB ram board and a SWTP
terminal that I built from a kit a year or two later for credit toward an
Apple II+ when they were brand new.
I once bought a complete, working Imsai 8008 at a pawn shop for fifty bucks.
This would have been about 1987, and the deal included the computer, a
terminal, and a dual 8" floppy drive. I used it for a couple of years until
I got out of the navy. Deciding that it was too heavy to truck across the
country, I gave it away. I really wish I hadn't done that, since I later
found out that the guy I gave it to sold it to a scrapper for about 5
dollars.
2 Oct
2 Oct
1:42 a.m.
New subject: Mistakes of youth (Was: Attention 1802 fans...)
As long as we are all confessing...
I actually shoved my beloved DEC Graphic PDP11/40 off the back of a
truck, then saw it crunched by
a massive electromagent hanging from a crane at the scrap yard.
It smashed that 11/40 flat in a heartbeat. At least I'd saved most of
its guts, and the 11/35 'spare' CPU chassis (now Tom Uban's) and VT-11
hardware.
I was closing down a business venture, and had no place to store the
machine. I still had a 11/34 at the time, so
the massive and hungry 11/40 system simply had to go.
Christopher McNabb wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glen Slick" <glenslick(a)hotmail.com>
I
kept all of the parts and the articles until I returned home from college
and then, gasp, threw them out. I really wish I still had them now so I
could build the Elf that I never finished. I guess I should just acquire
some 1802 chips and finish the job now.
I also regret trading in the KIM-1 along with a 8KB ram board and a SWTP
terminal that I built from a kit a year or two later for credit toward an
Apple II+ when they were brand new.
I once bought a complete, working Imsai 8008 at a pawn shop for fifty bucks.
This would have been about 1987, and the deal included the computer, a
terminal, and a dual 8" floppy drive. I used it for a couple of years until
I got out of the navy. Deciding that it was too heavy to truck across the
country, I gave it away. I really wish I hadn't done that, since I later
found out that the guy I gave it to sold it to a scrapper for about 5
dollars.
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