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Comment on Battlefield at Allatoona Pass, Georga by Visit to Kennesaw Mountain « Mike's Hobby Blog

Visit to Kennesaw Mountain « Mike's Hobby Blog — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:43:50 +0000

[...] The day after VCF east, I visited a couple of Civil War sites north of Atlanta. I already reported on my visit to Allatoona Pass. [...]

Comment on How are the Apple 1 and Wonder Woman Comics alike by Mike

Mike — Tue, 14 May 2013 11:05:39 +0000

Hi Lionel,

The larger characters on the Apple 1 are not Leroy, but I’m convinced the smaller stuff is. Transfer letters would have crisper ends, without the rounded characteristic of the end of a pen drawn line. Stay tuned for more posts on my investigations into the larger lettering.

Comment on How are the Apple 1 and Wonder Woman Comics alike by Lionel Theunissen

Lionel Theunissen — Mon, 13 May 2013 00:27:52 +0000

I don’t know what research you have done into this, but I don’t think the similarity in appearance alone is conclusive to the Apple 1 overlay text being produced on a Leroy system. The Apple 1 appears to use the Helvetica font (or at least a close variant). The shape of the numbers 1, 2, and 7 in particular is distinctive and characteristic of Helvetica (although some of the 1′s on the Apple 1 seem to differ to standard Helvetica, that might be explained by using an ‘I’ instead of a true ’1′). I think the most that can be said is that the font used on the Leroy is at least very similar if not the same and that it is probably a Helvetica variant, which is not surprising as it was and still is a very popular printing font.

Another possibility is that Letraset dry-transfers were used for the overlay text. Looking at the photo in your blog I would almost bet money that the Scelbi front bezel text was produced using Letraset.

Comment on First Microprocessor Based “Personal Computer” Advertisement by Steven Weyhrich

Steven Weyhrich — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:35:31 +0000

Very cool! Certainly has got to be the first one in a magazine.

Comment on SCELBI Demonstrated at VCFse by James from RetroMacCast

James from RetroMacCast — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:43:48 +0000

Mike – so great talking to you and learning about your computers. We’ll have your interview on a future episode of RetroMacCast, but it will be a few weeks as I have many interviews in the queue.

Comment on SCELBI Demonstrated at VCFse by David Larsen

David Larsen — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:48:56 +0000

Hi Mike – Great work with your SCELBI project. I am delighted to hear the demonstration went well. This is great way to introduce folks to the early microcomputer history and I bet even most computer hobbyist did not know about the SCELBI microcomputer.

I hope to make the next VCF as I am missing a lot of good action and an interesting history making event.

I have posted your comments here in my blog about the SCELBI in my collection.

Thank you for all you do for keeping the computer history alive for all of us.
Dave Larsen

Comment on SCELBI Demonstrated at VCFse by Martin

Martin — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 07:23:05 +0000

Good work, nice reading. Thanks. Looking forward to get this work on my SCELBI to show on BYTEFEST.

Comment on Guessing Game by Mike Gregory

Mike Gregory — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:08:07 +0000

I was going to say the top one, because of the Texas Instruments low profile IC sockets. However, the sockets in the lower picture are about as close as you can get – minus the logo.

Comment on Guessing Game by Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:27:48 +0000

They are not Wendell’s.

Comment on How to Make the 78S11 Cutouts in the Back of the SCELBI by Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 02:25:48 +0000

No John, that chassis punch makes a real clean cutout, with no sharp edges.