Vacation

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 9:51 am

He's gotta burned out worse than Elvis, being in Vegas. When was the last time he did something TV worthy?

TV WORTHY
IS AN OXYMORON
AARDVARK

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:13 pm

Flack wrote:I saw him live in 1986 (I think) in seventh grade, so yeah, he's been around for a while. I would have to say Penn and Teller's show is better, but Copperfield is a legend and I'm glad we got to see him, too. My kids didn't pick up on his complete disinterest in being on stage.

Some of these guys amaze me, doing Vegas so often. Penn and Teller do a show six days a week, don't they? That's unbelievable to me. Like, no matter how the day starts or whatever else you have planned, you have a full-on magic show at 7:00 PM each night or whatever.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:18 am

AArdvark wrote:Re: Computer museum
Please to be adding comments to the photos.(at your convenience, of course) I only recognize less than half of the subjects portrayed and would like to know more if I could.
It's the retro bug that bit me.

Captions, to the best of my ability, have now been added.

http://robohara.com/photo/index.php?alb ... FWest_2011

There are a couple of shots in the museum that I'm not sure what it was I photographed. I believe one is a PDP-8 or a PDP-10. I remember reading a sign for one, so I think that's what that one is.

Also, I need to add one last caption. The large, wall-o-computer that you see in the first photo is a section of UNIVAC.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 5:37 pm

Thank You!!

Like the Apple I in the nice wooden case. I was wondering what that was.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Jun 07, 2011 7:15 pm

Woz assembled about 200 Apple I machines. According to Wikipedia the whereabouts of "40-50" are currently known, but some of those are in pretty bad shape (missing all the chips, etc).

There's an unofficial Apple I registry here: http://www.willegal.net/appleii/apple1-originals.htm

Of those, I've seen two in person: the one in ABQ and the one in the Smithsonian.

According to that same webpage, four have sold on eBay for between $17k and $50k. Much more affordable is the Apple I replica kit: http://www.brielcomputers.com/replica1.html