5 Apr
2013
5 Apr
'13
6:08 a.m.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/gates_allen_reshoot_photo/
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One of the most iconic photos from the history of Microsoft, featuring
a lanky young Bill Gates perched next to his coding mentor (the way he
tells it) Paul Allen, has been recreated at Seattle's Living Computing
Museum.
[...]
Among the systems still surrounding them are an Apple II with twin
drives and an ancient monitor in the top left of the picture, with a
Commodore Pet below Bill Gates. Readers who can identify the other
systems, please let us know in Comments.
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5 Apr
5 Apr
1:51 p.m.
I can only identify the easier ones. Likely a Zenith H-89 in the middle,
and I thought a TRS-80 Model I on the front right although the more I look
at that picture the less detail I can see.
That front left one looks quite familiar though. Wish there was a bigger
picture out there. Love the remake though.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/gates_allen_reshoot_photo/
?
One of the most iconic photos from the history of Microsoft, featuring
a lanky young Bill Gates perched next to his coding mentor (the way he
tells it) Paul Allen, has been recreated at Seattle's Living Computing
Museum.
[...]
Among the systems still surrounding them are an Apple II with twin
drives and an ancient monitor in the top left of the picture, with a
Commodore Pet below Bill Gates. Readers who can identify the other
systems, please let us know in Comments.
?
--
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Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven
MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven
Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884
6 Apr
6 Apr
10:36 a.m.
I can tell you exactly what they are.
Back row, L-R : Apple II (Serial no. A252-223242) with two Apple disk II (Serial nos.
663608 and 1028507) and TMC S9 Picture Monitor (Serial no. 1098) ; Intertec Superbrain
(Serial no. 355129) [Replacing the original photograph's Datapoint 8200].
Front row, L-R : Sanyo MBC-550 (Serial no. 18221141) with Panasonic RGB monitor (Serial
no. EC3430061) and keyboard (Serial no. 18221149) [Replacing the original photograph's
NEC PC-8001] ; Zenith Data Systems Z-19 (Serial no. J128P106) ; Commodore Pet (Serial no.
0010850) ; and TRS-80 I (Serial no. 355129) with monitor and expansion unit.
Replacement computers are of similar form factor and also ran early Microsoft software.
Cynde Moya
Librarian/Archivist
Living Computer Museum
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf
Of Sam O'nella
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 1:51 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Identifications sought :?)
I can only identify the easier ones. Likely a Zenith H-89 in the middle, and I thought a
TRS-80 Model I on the front right although the more I look at that picture the less detail
I can see.
That front left one looks quite familiar though. Wish there was a bigger picture out
there. Love the remake though.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/gates_allen_reshoot_photo/
?
One of the most iconic photos from the history of Microsoft, featuring
a lanky young Bill Gates perched next to his coding mentor (the way he
tells it) Paul Allen, has been recreated at Seattle's Living Computing
Museum.
[...]
Among the systems still surrounding them are an Apple II with twin
drives and an ancient monitor in the top left of the picture, with a
Commodore Pet below Bill Gates. Readers who can identify the other
systems, please let us know in Comments.
?
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9 Apr
9 Apr
2:33 p.m.
Cynde,
What was the significance of these systems to them in that original photo?
Were they among the first Microsoft programmed systems? Were they just a
random sampling of systems of the era?
Just curious, they seem fairly random to me.
- John
On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Cynde Moya <CyndeM at vulcan.com> wrote:
I can tell you exactly what they are.
Back row, L-R : Apple II (Serial no. A252-223242) with two Apple disk II
(Serial nos. 663608 and 1028507) and TMC S9 Picture Monitor (Serial no.
1098) ; Intertec Superbrain (Serial no. 355129) [Replacing the original
photograph's Datapoint 8200].
Front row, L-R : Sanyo MBC-550 (Serial no. 18221141) with Panasonic RGB
monitor (Serial no. EC3430061) and keyboard (Serial no. 18221149)
[Replacing the original photograph's NEC PC-8001] ; Zenith Data Systems
Z-19 (Serial no. J128P106) ; Commodore Pet (Serial no. 0010850) ; and
TRS-80 I (Serial no. 355129) with monitor and expansion unit.
Replacement computers are of similar form factor and also ran early
Microsoft software.
Cynde Moya
Librarian/Archivist
Living Computer Museum
-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Sam O'nella
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 1:51 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Identifications sought :?)
I can only identify the easier ones. Likely a Zenith H-89 in the middle,
and I thought a TRS-80 Model I on the front right although the more I look
at that picture the less detail I can see.
That front left one looks quite familiar though. Wish there was a bigger
picture out there. Love the remake though.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 8:08 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/04/gates_allen_reshoot_photo/
?
One of the most iconic photos from the history of Microsoft, featuring
a lanky young Bill Gates perched next to his coding mentor (the way he
tells it) Paul Allen, has been recreated at Seattle's Living Computing
Museum.
[...]
Among the systems still surrounding them are an Apple II with twin
drives and an ancient monitor in the top left of the picture, with a
Commodore Pet below Bill Gates. Readers who can identify the other
systems, please let us know in Comments.
?
--
Liam Proven . Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile
Email: lproven at cix.co.uk . GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven
MSN: lproven at hotmail.com . Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven
Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 . Cell: +44 7939-087884
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