Re: Apple 1

[sinasohn@nospam.ricochet.net (Roger Sinasohn)]

Squest@cris.com (Steve Quest) wrote:
>: What's an SOL?

>	Pretty much a dumb terminal "plus".  :)  Nothing to wet your pants
>over.  I'd rather have a Heathkit dumb terminal myself (which is what I
>have) since I assembled it myself (sort-of, it was assembled with
>presoldered boards, only a few actual solder connections to build it).

Actually, I'd probably wet my pants if someone offered me a Sol (1, 10, or
20) at a price I could afford.  It's one of the three machines in (iirc)
the smithsonian as the first personal computers.  (Apple I and (I think)
Altair? (or imsai?) are the others.)

In fact, I heard Lee Felsenstein (who designed a large part of the SOL-20)
and (the other guy whose name I forget but he ran ProcTech) talk at the
recent Vintage Computer Festival.  Pretty cool.


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