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//Source(s): Historical Computer Society's "Historically Brewed" magazine Historically Brewed: Our First Year, $14.95 editor David Greelish Available from: HCS Press, 1994 2962 Park Street #1 Jacksonville Florida 32205// The staggering speed of technological obsolescence in personal computing makes this perhaps the single most challenging area in dead media studies. The following list, garnered from several issues of "Historically Brewed," a computer collectors' fanzine, does not even begin to count the casualties. There is no pretense of accuracy or exhaustiveness here, although this is the best list I've seen to date. These machines were created for the American, British, and Japanese markets, with no mention at all of, for instance, Soviet Bloc computers. Nor are there any listings of workstations, mainframes, dedicated game computers or arcade console machines. The lacunae here are very obvious and I hope that knowledgeable Dead Media Illuminati will help to close those gaps. I was deeply disquieted to learn that the Historical Computer Society has a sister group known as IACC which specializes in collecting defunct calculators. A further wrinkle suggests itself when one surmises that the true "dead medium" in dead computation is not dead platforms (such as those listed here) but dead operating systems (for which I have no list at all). An editorial note: The Dead Media Mailing List is now emanating from fringeware.com, who were kind enough to offer us their services gratis. The Dead Media Mailing List is not an interactive list or discussion group. That may come at some later time -- I welcome advice on the subject of a possible "alt.dead.media." Currently this mailing list is solely a means of distribution of edited articles and research minutiae. Only the most sober, lugubrious, and scholarly commentary will pass the eagle eye of the DMML editor, ie. bruces@well.com. Hopefully this will keep traffic down to the point where we can all actually get some work done. Dead Personal Computers (the first draft): code Altair 8800
 * Dead medium: Dead Personal Computers**

Amiga 500

Amiga 1000

Amstrad

Apple I, II, IIc, IIe, II+, IIgs, III

Apple Lisa

Apple Lisa MacXL

Apricot

Atari 400

Atari 800

Atari 520ST

Atari 1200XL

Basis 190

BBC Micro

Bondwell 2

Cambridge Z-88

Canon Cat

Columbia Portable

Commodore 128

Commodore C64

Commodore Vic-20

Commodore Plus 4

Commodore Pet

CompuPro "Big 16"

Cromemco Z-2D

Cromemco System 3

DOT Portable

Eagle II

Epson QX-10

Epson HX-20

Epson PX-8 Geneva

Exidy Sorcerer

Franklin Ace 500

Franklin Ace 1200

Gavilan

Grid Compass

Heath/Zenith

Hyperion

IBM PC 640K

IBM XT

IBM Portable

IBM PCjr

IMSAI 8080

Intertek Superbrain II

Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1

Kaypro 2x

Linus WriteTop

Mac 128, 512, 512KE

Mattel Aquarius

Micro-Professor MPF-II

Morrow MicroDecision 3

Morrow Portable

NEC PC-8081

NEC Starlet 8401-LS

NorthStar Advantage

NorthStar Horizon

Ohio Scientific

Oric

Osborne 1

Osborne Executive

Panasonic

Sanyo 1255

Sanyo PC 1250

Sinclair ZX-80

Sinclair ZX-81

Sol Model 20

Sony SMC-70

Spectravideo SV-328

SuperBrain II QD

Tandy 1000

Tandy 1000SL

Tandy Coco 1

Tandy Coco 2

Tandy Coco 3

Tano Dragon

TRS-80

TI 99/4

Timex/Sinclair 1000

Timex/Sinclair color computer

Vector 4

Victor 9000

Workslate

Xerox 820 II

Xerox Alto

Xerox Dorado

Xerox 1108

Yamaha CX5M

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Possible sources of further insight: A Collector's Guide to Personal Computers and Pocket Calculators by Dr Thomas F Haddock $14.95 from: Books Americana, Inc P O Box 2326 Florence, Alabama 35360 History of the Personal Computer by Stan Veit $16.95 from: Historical Computer Society 2962 Park Street #1 Jacksonville, Florida 32205 Encyclopedia of Computer History by Mark Greenia Lexikon Publishing (??)