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    Has anyone found a strange acting NEC 8080 in an early IMSAI

    In the spring of 1976 I sold some IMSAI 8080s that were included in my initial order from them when I became a dealer in early Feb. 1976. One of them went to a man named John Clarke in Shamburg, IL. (who a little later opened The Data Domain of Shamburg. one of the more successful computer...
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    I have a questin for anyone interested

    There are two interesting computers in the "vintage" catagory that I have never seen mentioned in anyone's collection or on eBay or other auction sites. One is the Wang PC. They were out in about 1984, were built like the provebial brick outhouse and were 8086 based. They made no apologies...
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    A Poem

    This is posted wih apologies and acknowledgements to Ms.Lou Ellen Davis, who had it published in Datqmatioin magazine if the summer of 1962 or thereabouts. DATAMATRON Gung Ho, automation! And dinner gets cold While daddy's debugging And mommie grows old. Alone...
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    Definitiions Please

    I would like to see enough participation in this catagory to at least come up with a sort of chart containing a type of computer. The chart would contain a "box" which would be assigned one of the names of the computers listed in this catagory. That is, there would be two or three boxes. One...
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    Conversation Starter (I Hope)

    Now I realize that I am almost ancient by comparison with most of you, but I simply can't accept the idea that the computer industry began with the development of the Intel 8008. My first hands on experience with a commercially developed digital computer was as an Air Force instructor, teaching...
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    Response to Erik's request of Oct. 25, 2003:

    I opened "The Data Domain" in Feb. 1976, with no more idea of what might happen than anyone else in those first eight or ten months of the explosion of technology. I rented 720 Sq. Ft. of space near the town square, signed up as dealers for Cromemco, Processor Technology, IMSAI, and every...
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    Need a volunteerto help me to attend the VCF next month.

    I am disabled. I am anxious to attend theis year's VCF but hove nobody from home to come with me, and cannot come without someone to help me. My son flies all over the world and racks up hundreds of thousands of bonus miles and will give me a round trip first class ticket, and possibly a...
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    Viatron

    Looking for anyone who knows anything about a company named Viatron and whose product was a data entry work station consisting of a video display, keyboard, cassette recorder and communications facilities with a microprocessor chipset as the basis for it's success or failure. It received vast...
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    A true orphan, lookong for a home.

    I have a computer that is Z-80 based, packaged somewhat like a Superbrain (computer and dual FD and keyboard in an enclosure that is made to look like a crt. terminal. Connectors for Sserial, Parallel and hard-disk connectors on back. Have complete schmatics and some sales literature, plus what...
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    Greetings from a non-collector, --- just a history buff.

    Hi ya'll, Ray Borrill here, oldataman on the roster. I'm not a collector, jsut the opposite. I started out about three years ago to sell all that I had just to pacify my wife, who wanted to use the garage for some strange and unimaginable use like to put a car in during the long Indiana wnter...
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