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RARITY: Unknown YEAR: November 1974
PUBLISHER: 73, Inc. Number: 169
COUNTRY: U.S.A.
IN OUR COLLECTION: Yes
73 Magazine #169 October 1974
Amateur Radio magazine 73, issue #169. SCELBI has an ad on page 110 for their mini-computer, starting as low as $440. The SCELBI mini-computer is a very early home computer, predating the Altair by around seven months, and it premiered in the March 1974 issue of QST magazine. It was $565 pre-built. Godbout has an ad on page 155, selling the 8008 processor for $50 among many other components. They also have a statement at the top of the page, "Those who have bought the 8008 processor from us or RGS or Cybertronics who are interested in sharing hardward [sic] and software please send full name and address - and we will prepare a mailing list and send it to all who have sent in names and addresses."
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COMPUTER COLLECTION LIST (PRE-1981)
(Analogs in blue)
(Analogs in blue)
- AIM-65 (single board)
- AIM-65 (factory case)
- AIM-65 (Jon Titus)
- ALICE micro-ordinateur
- Altair 680
- Altair 8800
- Altair 8800A
- Altair 8800b
- Altair 8800b Turnkey (see Pertec below)
- Altair 8800b (see Pertec below)
- Altair 8800b w/ Hardisk Controller & Datakeeper
- Altos ACS-8000
- American Basic Science Club Analog Computer
- AMF Educational Computer
- Apple II Plus
- ASCI SystemX
- ASR 33 Teletype
- Automatic Teaching Computer Kit
- Beckman ElectroComp Electric Heating Computer
- Beckman ElectroComp Energy Savings Computer
- Beckman Solid State Fuel Cost Computer
- Brainiac K-30
- Calif. Computer Systems 2200
- CES Ed-Lab 650
- Commodore 8032
- Commodore 64
- Commodore PET 2001
- Commodore Super Pet
- Compucolor II
- Compukit 1
- Compukit 1 Deluxe Model
- Compukit 2
- Compukit UK101
- Comspace CT-650
- Cosmac Elf (RCA1802)
- Cosmac Microtutor
- Cosmac Netronics ELF II
- Cosmac VIP
- Cromemco System I
- Cromemco System III
- Cromemco Z-2D
- Datapoint 2200
- Digi-Comp I (flat box)
- Digi-Comp I (square box)
- Digital Computer Lab
- Donner 3500
- Durango F-85
- Dynabyte
- E & L Inst MMD-1
- E & L Inst MMD-2
- Eagle II
- Electric Tabulating Machine (one original counter, 1889)
- Electronic Associates TR-10
- Electronic Associates TR-10 Model II
- Electronic Associates TR-20
- Electronic Associates TR-48
- Electronic Associates Model 180
- Electronic Associates Model 380 Hybrid
- Geniac
- Google Glass (definitely not vintage)
- Heath EC-1 (factory assembled by Heath)
- Heathkit EC-1 (kit)
- Heathkit ET 3100 trainer
- Heathkit H8
- Heathkit H9 Video Terminal
- Hickok Logic Teaching Sys.
- Hickok Servo Teaching Sys.
- HP 2115A
- HP 85
- HP 5036A
- HP 9825A
- HP 9825B
- HP 9830A
- Iasis 7301
- I-COR MAC-1
- ICS Microcomputer Training System
- IMSAI 108 (prototype)
- IMSAI 8048 Control Computer
- IMSAI 8048 (The Dollhouse Computer)
- IMSAI 8080
- IMSAI PCS-40
- IMSAI PCS-80
- IMSAI VDP-80
- Informer
- Intel Intellec MDS
- Intel MDS-800
- Intel Prompt 48
- Intel SBC 80/10
- Intel SDK-85
- Intel SDK-85 (unassembled)
- Intel SDK-86
- Intertec Superbrain
- ITT MP-EX
- JR-01 Computer
- KIM-1
- LAN-DEC
- LAN-DEC 20
- LAN-ALOG
- Lehrcomputer (Germany)
- Lawrence Livermore Lab
- Lear Siegler ADM3A
- Logikit LK255 (Feedback)
- Logix SF-5000 Electronic Computer
- MAC-1 Mini Analog Computer
- MAC Tutor (Bell Laboratories)
- MEK6800D2
- Micro 68
- Microtan 65
- Midwest Scientific Instruments 6800
- Minivac 601
- Minivac 6010
- Mini-Scamp Microcomputer
- Nascom I
- Nascom II
- National Radio Institute 832
- NEC TK-80
- NorthStar Horizon
- Olivetti Programma 101
- Olivetti Programma 203
- Olivetti Programma 602
- Open University PT501
- Ordinateur d'Apprentissage JR-01
- Osborne 1
- OSI 300
- OSI 600 (SuperBoard II)
- OSI C2-OEM-4
- OSI Challenger-1P
- Pastoriza Personal Analogue Computer
- Pertec MITS 300/25 (Altair desk business system)
- Pertec MITS 300/55 (Altair Turnkey business system)
- PolyMorphic Systems 8810
- PolyMorphic Poly-88
- Protech-83
- Range Keeper Mk.6 Mechanical Analog Computer, 1926
- Range Keeper Mk.7 Mechanical Analog Computer, 1935?
- Sargent-Welch Scientific Company Cat. No.7528 Analog Computer
- Science of Cambridge MK-14 (Sinclair)
- SD Systems Z80 starter kit
- Sharp MZ-40K
- Sharp MZ-80k
- Siemens ECB-85
- Signetics Instructor 50
- Sinclair ZX-81
- Smoke Signal Broadcasting
- Sol-20
- Spark16
- Sphere 1
- Sphere/SWTPC Computer System
- SWTP CMOS Microlab
- SWTP CT-82 Terminal
- SWTPC 6800
- SWTPC 6800 (w/ Smoke Signal Broadcasting drive)
- SWTPC CT-64 Video Terminal, SS-50
- SWTPC TV Typewriter II CT-1024
- Synertek VIM-1
- Synertek SYM-1
- Systron-Donner 3500
- Tei MCS-112
- Tektronix 4006-1
- Telefunken RAT 700
- TI LCM-1001 (Microprogrammer)
- TI LCM-1001 (Microprogrammer)
- TI Silent 700 Terminal
- TI TM 990/189
- Vector 1
- Vector 3
- Vidac 336
- Wang 2200
- Welch Scientific Company Cat. No.7528 Analog Computer
- Xerox 820 Mark I
OTHER COMPUTERS (LUGGABLES 1982-1986)
- Chameleon Plus
- Commodore SX64
- Epson HX-20
- Kaypro I
- Kaypro II
- Kaypro 2x
- Kaypro 16
- Osborne 1
- Panasonic Senior Partner
- Visual Commuter
RARE & NOTABLE DOCUMENTS
- Babbage's Calculating Engine (1834)
- Electric Tabulating Machine (1889, Herman Hollerith's personal copy)
- The Hollerith Electric Tabulating System (1890)
- Counting a Nation by Electricity (1891)
- Calculating Machines (1947)
- Moore School Lectures Vol. II (1947)
- Mathematical Theory of Communication (1948)
- Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (1949)
- The "Moore's Law" article (Electronics, 1965)
- Printout from Babbage's Difference Engine #2 (London Science Museum, 2004)