How the Mac was born... supposedly...

Wed Jan 12 17:06:25 CST 2005

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Al Kossow wrote:

> Weird Stuff in Milpitas was great. That was where I found
> most of my Xerox stuff. With 20/20 hindsight (and more space)
> I should have grabbed things like the PDP12 that came in and
> the PERQ 1.

Oh the stuff I didn't know to grab when I first went to WeirdStuff in
Milpitas back in, oh, 1993.  I only recall seeing a couple Lisas there
(priced at what I thought was way too much at I think $50 each).  I did
get this interesting Northern Telecom terminal phone (that I still haven't
gotten to work...I never got the right power supply with it).

> Halted didn't (and still doesn't) do much for me. I got to

Too bad Halted doesn't ever budged on their as-is prices.  Not that they
have much of anything that cool.

> know the last batch of folks running Haltek pretty well, and
> I was the one that bought their data book collection when they
> were forced out.

It's a shame Haltek went away.  Excess Solutions may be the next to go
unfortunately.

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