[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...
Yes, in those days, magazines were printed, and mailed out, or shipped to newstands before their nominal date, in order to be delivered by their nominal date. The intent was that people would have it by January 1st, so it would arrive in late December. So, the January 1975 one would have been written, copyrighted, and printed in November or December 1974. On Mon, 6 May 2024, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: Perhaps After doing the layout work in the November it was perhaps copyrighted Immediately during layout But it did not ship Until January Think! back in those days things did not instantly happen and we're instantly shipped Ed# Sent from AOL on Android On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2024, 1:28 AM Smith, Wayne via cctalk wrote: I looked up the Jan. 1975 issue of Popular Electronics in the Copyright Office's Periodicals Digest. It was published on Nov. 19, 1974 if you are looking for an actual anniversary date. The January issue was certainly not available in November of 1974. When did it actually get sent out and start showing up in people's mailboxes? Sellam
[cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...
Perhaps After doing the layout work in the November it was perhaps copyrighted Immediately during layout But it did not ship Until January Think! back in those days things did not instantly happen and we're instantly shipped Ed# Sent from AOL on Android On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2024, 1:28 AM Smith, Wayne via cctalk wrote: > I looked up the Jan. 1975 issue of Popular Electronics in the Copyright > Office's Periodicals Digest. It was published on Nov. 19, 1974 if you are > looking for an actual anniversary date. > The January issue was certainly not available in November of 1974. When did it actually get sent out and start showing up in people's mailboxes? Sellam >
[cctalk] Re: Help request with fundraising campaign to save historic computers
On 5/3/2024 5:35 AM, Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk wrote: Hello everyone I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to save a large number of machines with significant historic value, including some Sperry Univac systems. Museo del Computer is a non-profit organization in northern Italy, run solely by volunteer work and donors' money since governments are still not interested in computer history. Museo del Computer is one of the largest computer history museums worldwide, with 4000 sqm between exhibition area and storage space, open to the public upon booking. This recovery expedition will go as far as 750km to load 100+ machines onto 3 lorries. Gianluca Bonetti Is there a list somewhere of the machines? Also, if there are EXEC OS tapes there, make sure those are treated with care. If they need help reading 7 track tapes and are willing to ship them to the US, I can recommend a contact who recently read a 7 track tape for me that dated back to the 1960s. As far as vetting the legitimacy of the fund raising campaign, I did a little diggging. First I saw that there is a website that folks may find useful. http://www.museodelcomputer.org/ That website has a donations page, but the translation process makes it hard to find the link on that donation page, but I did see a link on the Italian version, and it does seem to point to the same place, so it seems legit. (There is a link I found on that page near the end of this posting). https://fundrazr.com/computermuseum?ref=ab_62Z1p5MB63862Z1p5MB638 Also, I followed a link from the above fundrazr that points back to their website donation page, which is reassuring: http://www.museodelcomputer.org/index.php/nav=Informazioni.35/Language=ITA/MD=/SD=/Pagina=4 JRJ
[cctalk] Re: Help request with fundraising campaign to save historic computers
On 5/4/2024 11:46 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote: On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 9:28 AM Gianluca Bonetti via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: ... I am helping Museo del Computer with this fundraising effort in order to save a large number of machines with significant historic value, including some Sperry Univac systems. ... I would want to know more of the story and also to see more photos before I would consider donating. Sellam I'm on the same page with you, Sellam. I would want to see a website, and a link to the donation page on that website before I would consider donating. JRJ
