RE: [N8VEM-S100:4521] Trip Report

Matt.

Nice! I hope you enjoyed that movie, my favorite part... "What would the average person do with a computer?".

Where are Woz's comments? I missed that.... should be interesting to read.

J.

From: turner...@hotmail.com
To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:4521] Trip Report - Met Crusty OMO
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 18:46:32 -0400

Hey Josh!

11:30, but only because of roadwork on the 401.

Yes, I should have taken pictures. And yes, I just watched "Pirates of Silicon Valley", and read Steve Wozniak's comments on the movie. It's somewhat painful to me that I missed buying an Apple I by two years. I remember looking at an Apple about 1978 in a store, and I think the keyboard had pasted-on letters and symbols.

Regards,

Matt

From: crus...@hotmail.com
To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: [N8VEM-S100:4519] Trip Report - Met Crusty OMO
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 22:17:02 +0000

Hi Matt,

Thanks, it was a pleasure to have you and Jean over yesterday. Thank you again for lending me your Super ELF, I hope to have it fixed up in time for the September VCF show... we'll see if I can get through this 8080 Project firmware fast enough.

You should go visit Dave Dunfield, he lives very close to you and has a wonderful collection (less a couple of systems which I bought from him). But he still has some very nice early intel systems (which are beyond my focus and budget, mostly beyond my budget).

I'm glad to see your posting here, which means you made it home safe and sound. You must have rolled in near midnight? Sorry for keeping you here so late, time flies eh?

Cheers,
Josh Bensadon

Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 05:56:58 -0700
From: turner...@hotmail.com
To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [N8VEM-S100:4516] Trip Report - Met Crusty OMO

Managed to drive to Toronto yesterday to meet Josh Bensadon a.k.a. Crusty OMO, and visited his Basement Museum of Early Computing. Somewhat of an eye-opening experience. I knew such collections existed, but I didn't expect to see one on this trip. I recognized most of the pieces from drooling over ads in "Kilobaud" 35 years ago, but it was the first time I'd seen most of the actual units.

Also got to pick up my 8080 boards, and see the prototype, which is a masterpiece of delicate soldering. And I saw one of the assembled prototypes for the mini-FP board. That is going to be a fantastic kit when it goes to production!

Josh, thankyou for an excellent evening! It makes me wonder what sorts of working collections others have managed to assemble.

Regards,

Matt Turner

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