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Article #752how many ALTO's are there?
From: Al Kossow
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 04:53
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1990 04:53
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Hi,
In a previous posting, someone asked about how many Altos and Stars
there were. Since the 8000/1108 were commerical products, I would
expect that there are still a fair number (hundreds??) kicking around.
The Alto, however, was never sold. I suspect that I have the largest
remaining collection outside of Xerox at around twenty machines. The
machines donated to MIT went to the Boston Computer Museum, where some
were sold off to raise money. The other big blocks (10 each?) went to
universities which included the U of Rochester, CMU, Stanford, Cal Tech,
and a few went to the White House. I haven't been able to track down
what happened to any of those machines except the Stanford ones, which
were scrapped about a year ago. From time to time, Alto boards show up
in the surplus stores out here in the slimey-valley, probably discarded
from PARC...
- RIP -
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Al Kossow @ Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Internet: aek@apple.com
Phone: (408) 974-5136
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