Agreed with Jeff and Neil. This museum is for enthusiasts such as ourselves, but to a somewhat larger extent also for the general public, to whom the consumer micros had a larger impact on their lives. With that in mind, perhaps the exhibits should be weighted a bit more heavily in that direction, which would then include unique examples of the major players at the time ( Atari, Commodore, TI, Tandy/RS, Sinclair, IBM, etc.) That being said, I think it would be vitally important to showcase earlier (DEC, Xerox, Altair, various single-boards, etc.) to show a clear history of what influenced the creation of those "newer" systems. After all, the overall mission is to educate, n'es pas? Dean On Friday, November 6, 2015, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 11/06/2015 07:53 AM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Comment about list:
The Atari (anything) is more historic than the PDP 8 clone, as this is a microcomputer exhibit. To that end, I'd also avoid any AT&T machines except the 6300. The UNIX PCs are workstations not micros. Xerox 860 is not really a historic micro. It was more of a business machine used often for terminal emulation, etc in an office environment. If you narrow the scope to home/small business micros that will help narrow the list.
Good point on the Xerox, Not sure I understand the AT&T comment, did you mean the 7300?
I think the PDP-8 is a good example of the DIY mentality though taken to the extreme.
The Apple, Atari, Commodore were the big 3 in the home market in the late 70, early 80's. And while I never saw an Apple in K-Mart during that time, I did see the Atari, Commodore and Timex Sinclair 1000.
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