Not too many years ago, a friend found a Cray 1 that was stored in someone's garage and made a deal to buy it. Before he even took possession, he ended up trading it for an Apple 1 when he realized he didn't have a place to keep it. Who knows, there could be a few more out there in the wild. Not so many years ago, it was estimated that there were only 30 Apple 1 's remaining. New units keep surfacing every year. Regards, Mike Willegal
On 05/28/2016 06:47 AM, Mike Willegal via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Not too many years ago, a friend found a Cray 1 that was stored in someone's garage and made a deal to buy it. Before he even took possession, he ended up trading it for an Apple 1 when he realized he didn't have a place to keep it.
Who knows, there could be a few more out there in the wild. Not so many years ago, it was estimated that there were only 30 Apple 1 's remaining. New units keep surfacing every year.
The difference with early Crays is that we pretty much know where all of them went. There really aren't any more. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On May 28, 2016, at 8:39 AM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 05/28/2016 06:47 AM, Mike Willegal via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Not too many years ago, a friend found a Cray 1 that was stored in someone's garage and made a deal to buy it. Before he even took possession, he ended up trading it for an Apple 1 when he realized he didn't have a place to keep it.
Who knows, there could be a few more out there in the wild. Not so many years ago, it was estimated that there were only 30 Apple 1 's remaining. New units keep surfacing every year.
The difference with early Crays is that we pretty much know where all of them went. There really aren't any more.
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
I think the difference between the Apple-1 and the early Cray computers is that the Crays were a controlled item. You couldn't buy or ship one without US government approval, so there is a paper trail for them. The Apple-1 was a hobbyist/consumer computer so once sold, if a record of that was even kept, they disappeared into a black hole until they emerged.
I think the difference between the Apple-1 and the early Cray computers is that the Crays were a controlled item. You couldn't buy or ship one without US government approval, so there is a paper trail for them. The Apple-1 was a hobbyist/consumer computer so once sold, if a record of that was even kept, they disappeared into a black hole until they emerged.
When I originally bought my set of Crays they made me sign the "acknowledgement that it is a munition" document. It came from a government contractor and the space it was in was TS. When I sold one of them to someone in Sweeden or Switzerland, it took me a little bit of work to make sure I was actually allowed to export the thing. Fun times!
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