While nowhere near as old as some of you folks, my collections contain (somewhere in our storage) is my 1984 Mac, a NeXT machine, and a B-box that I ¡. Purloined from Lexmark a lifetime ago. ?The running joke was that if you wanted to steal a chair you put printers and computers et all and pushed them out on a chair.
This may or may not have been sent from my iPad, iPhone, MacBook Pro, or a piece of dry toast.
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On May 9, 2022, at 11:57 PM, Steve Wheeler <steven.r.wheeler@...> wrote:
?I?almost got to build an original Altair for my senior project in electronics. It didn't quite work out, and I ended up designing and building circuitry using discrete logic for a small vehicle that would run until it hit an obstacle (it had a couple of contact switches on the front bumpers), then back off and turn away from the obstacle before heading out again.
A year or so later, I put down money on an ECD MicroMind, and managed to get a refund just before they went under. I put that toward an Apple II, which ended up with 48k of RAM, 2 floppies (back when they were several hundred each), a Microsoft Z80 card, and a fair amount of software. Gave it away to my daughter's babysitter back around 1990. I'm cleaning out my garage this week, and yesterday I ran across the floppy and booklet for a program I wrote that was distributed through Call-A.P.P.L.E.
