6 Oct
1998
6 Oct
'98
1:19 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Scott Ware wrote:
How about the Expander? It's an S-100 box
designed by Lee Felsenstein
that's sort of a cross between a SOL-20 and a TRS-80 model 1, only
Swedish. The only information I've been able to find on this machine is
in Kip Crosby's CHAC interview with Lee Felsenstein in Analytical Engine
3.2. According to the information in the interview, 200 Expanders were
made, but the order was never paid for, so only "a few" made it into the
public.
Lee touched on this at VCF 1.0. He described the project a little bit:
how it came about and what happened to it. The VCF 1.0 talks will be
available for purchase on tape before the end of the year (I PROMISE!)
Looks very cool.
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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6 Oct
6 Oct
3:32 a.m.
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Sam Ismail wrote:
(regarding the Expander)
Lee touched on this at VCF 1.0. He described the
project a little bit:
how it came about and what happened to it. The VCF 1.0 talks will be
available for purchase on tape before the end of the year (I PROMISE!)
I've always wondered how one of these machines ended up on a sidewalk in
Chicago (admittedly, the location isn't so strange, since it was only a
few miles from the zip code listed for "Micro-Expander" on the back
panel).
Finding this machine outside the former site of a computer store called
"Sol's Computer Works" seemed unlikely to be just a coincidence. I talked
old hardware with the proprietor of the shop for a while and remarked on
the similarity of the Expander to the Sol, but he didn't volunteer any
additional information and I didn't press him for it. Maybe the VCF tapes
will fill in some of the missing information in the history of the
Expander.
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