rarest computers

Adrian Graham Adrian at beovax.co.uk
Thu Aug 5 03:44:03 CDT 2004


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> Computer Festival
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> Subject: RE: rarest computers
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> rush for a Computer History Museum event, but I think it 
> boiled down to dirty contacts on everything.  I unseated and 
> re-seated all the modules and it finally came up.  There 

I did all that before I discovered it was an NTSC box :) Didn't have any
compatible display device at the time so it went back in its box....

> BTW, when I was in Japan at the National Science Museum, they 
> had on loan the original "Brown Box" prototype of the 
> Odyssey.  They actually had it turned on and connected to a 
> television, and it was still working!

Brilliant! Do you know if there are any pictures of that? I've seen
original 1960s photos of the brown box but a current one would be
excellent.
 
Cheers

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adrian/witchy
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