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Here are a few links I found interesting:

Pop quiz, hotshot! The first PC? http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml

Play Spacewar! The first real video game. http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/el/projects/spacewar/

A real do-it-yourself guy! Bob Lash's Memoir of a Homebrew Computer Club Member

Federico Faggin and the first microprocessor, the 4004 http://www.intel4004.com/

History of the Mark 8 as told by Jon Titus http://www.his.com/~jlewczyk/adavie/mark8b.html

Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar, http://www.circuitcellar.com/ Steve is an early digital group system owner, and has a Scelbi computer in that cellar somewhere.

Other Mark 8 Computers known or rumored to exist:

Jon Titus' Mark 8 ended up at the Smithsonian, status unknown. See it at: http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/merk_8_ibm_5100.html

John Lewczyk has a working Mark 8 Minicomputer! http://www.his.com/~jlewczyk/mark8.html (His link to me has been wrong for many years now!)

Craig Miller has one. Not working. Hey Craig! Write me again, please! My response to your earlier email never went through! Must have pics!

Tom Stall has one. Not working yet, but there is a picture on the net. You'll have to look for it down the page.

Andrew Martin has one, not working. He plans to make it work again! pic1 and pic2

Gary Simpson has one, not working. He plans to restore one day  (no pics, sorry.)

Bob Anders has one, not working.

Jack Rubin has half a Mark-8. Not working, of course.

Mark Whatley has one, not working. He is considering a restoration project. Hey Mark... Do it!

Cliff Bedore has a working one!! He also has some great software, and is busy hooking up his Teletype. Go Cliff! Here is a thumbnail pic. His site is: http://www.bdb.com/mark8/

Unknown/rumor someone picked up a mangled one on eBay in 2002. I was never able to find a good email for him. Last know status was not working, boards only. (From the reports, it sounded as though it had been modified according to the Dr. Robert Suding method, as described in the Digital Group Packet #1.)

Terry Ritter has memories of the Mark 8 http://www.ciphersbyritter.com/MARK8/MARK8.HTM

A man desperate to own a Mark 8 will go to extremes, AKA, imitation Mark 8.

Steve has made several "recent model" Mark 8's, and has a picture page: http://mark8.obtronix.com/gallery/ 

The Digital Group on the web:

Dr. Robert Suding, designer of all things Digital Group, has put up a page to tell his story!! Excellent story by a true pioneer:  http://www.ultimatecharger.com/dg.html

Eric Smith has a Digital Group page: www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ the_digital_group/

The Digibarn has a page: http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/digitalgroup/index.html

Jim Forbes has a working system: http://www.selectric.org/thedigitalgroup/index.html

Tom Apel is an active collector, in the process of setting up a web site. Not much there yet, but check back once in a while. http://www.thedigitalgroup.org/dg.html

Scott LaBombard is another active collector... Come on Scott! Up with the web page already!

I am contact with several other owners, as they put up web pages, I will add the links here.

 

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