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Re: Commodore PET, was: Re: legacy /8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sun Apr 11 12:04:03 2010
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:03:54 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4BC1A1F4.9010801@mompl.net> (Jeroen van Aart's message of "Sun\,
11 Apr 2010 03\:18\:28 -0700")
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> writes:
> ...
>
> That was at the West Coast Computer Faire in mid-April of 1977, organised
> by Jim Warren of Dr. Dobbs Journal. The first major gather of hobbyists
> and microcomputer companies. Apparently an important moment in the
> microcomputer history.
seems like i saw an Apple I at that show, and also a SOL, which i remember
thinking very highly of since it had an S-100 bus. the PET was there but
with the itty bitty keyboard the machine was a bit of a head-scratcher for
the crowd.
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Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
