That's fantastic to hear some Poly88 systems are still around ! Yes, the graphic capability of the Poly88 is what caught my attention. But I think recall also reading that it wasn't quite "S-100" compatible? Maybe that's not quite accurate, or at least no worse than other "S-100" systems in those very early days. Can't recall if the Poly's had a MicroSoft derived BASIC.
Well, if you do make it to VCF MW - maybe some room might yet come available, as some peoples plans change. Or I'll only be there Saturday, can give up my half-table after that! -Steve On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 2:16 PM Marvin Johnston via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > FWIW and as some of you might know, Polymorphic was manufactured here in > Santa Barbara (also Lobo Drives/Systems, and Street Electronics.) After > Poly had gone out of business, a friend of mine ended up getting all (or > most) of the remaining Poly documentation and most of the remaining > hardware from the person who owned the Polymorphic remains. After he had > sold off some of that "stash", he gave the remaining stuff to me. I > spent a week or so taking the remaining original masters documentation > and putting it in a filing cabinet. That stuff included approximately > 200 S-100 boards in various states of being built and maybe up to ten > thousand (WAG) 1/4" and 8" disks of stuff that was being worked on at > Poly when they shut down. > > On my to-do list is to scan the remaining documentation (about a four > drawer filing cabinet) as well putting together the remaining Poly88s > (four- six) and other boards. I had planned on bringing some of that > "stuff" to VCFMW, but found out last night the exhibit area was filled. > So at this point, I don't know if I will be attending or not. > > I am more concerned with getting the documentation scanned and archived > and will most likely end up buying a high speed double sided scanner. So > this is just a heads up that a lot (most?) of the original Polymorphic > documentation does still exist. Years ago, some highly uninformed > individual said this could not be original since there were no graphics > in the Circa early 1970 docs. He was wrong about this not being original > documentation!!! I also tried to keep any marked diskettes with the > docs. Those disks were primarily system disks. And those disks NEED to > be backed up before they degrade to the point they would be difficult to > read. > > FWIW, I would have liked to get this stuff scanned, etc but at that > time, I didn't have enough money to pay attention let alone buy a > scanner to scan this stuff :). > > Marvin > >
