[rescue] Current collections...

[Francois Dion]

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Apr 6, 2004, at 2:55 PM, Steve Sandau wrote:
>
>>>> Also time to pull out that Heathkit and see if anyone here knows 
>>>> anything about it. It belonged to my late boss, someone I admire 
>>>> greatly. It was his firct computer, and his wife thought I'd like 
>>>> it. I get misty-eyed just typing that...
>>>
>>>   What model is it?
>>
>>
>> I don't know right off. (That's why I put 'unexplored' in the list -- 
>> it's at home and I'm not.) I'll get details tonight and post them. I 
>> think it has the potential to be the most interesting one of the lot.
>
>
>   Cool.  I'm interested in hearing more about it.  Some of the 
> Heathkit models were extremely cool.
>
>       -Dave

Yes, quite definitely. Big Heathkit fan, here. They went way, way back 
in computing kits. I'd like to find another Heath/Daystrom analog 
computer, one day. My college had one, and I got one but it was stolen 
(of all things - I cant imagine who would want that) from my storage in 
Montreal.

S100. I used to salivate at the video/music card in Byte magasine, 
except it was for the S100 bus, and we didn't have anything that would 
run that. I was too young to assemble a heathkit computer and hope it 
would work, I had enough trouble with simple audio gear. Anybody still 
selling S100 kits? :P

Francois