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From: Stephen Horne on 24 Mar 2010 18:34
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:17:59 -0700 (PDT), schmidtd
<schmidtd(a)my-deja.com> wrote:

>On Mar 24, 3:02�pm, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > I would say the 64c. Mainly because the Apple IIe you could tell was
>> > old. However, the 64c they might ponder a bit.
>>
>> You know.. Oddly enough, there were people last year that said, "I
>> don't get the joke" when they saw it. �Because they just thought �the
>> Apple IIe was just another computer. �I would think the monitor alone
>> would be a dead giveaway (all of our screens are LCD now) and the
>> integrated keyboard... Oh well..
>
>A Timex Sinclair 1000/zx81 would send a pretty clear message...

I don't know - IIRC, they used to boot a lot faster than modern PCs.

From: polishedball on 24 Mar 2010 22:21
On Mar 24, 6:34 pm, Stephen Horne <sh006d3...(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:17:59 -0700 (PDT), schmidtd
>
> <schmi...(a)my-deja.com> wrote:
> >On Mar 24, 3:02 pm, David Murray <adri...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> > I would say the 64c. Mainly because the Apple IIe you could tell was
> >> > old. However, the 64c they might ponder a bit.
>
> >> You know.. Oddly enough, there were people last year that said, "I
> >> don't get the joke" when they saw it.  Because they just thought  the
> >> Apple IIe was just another computer.  I would think the monitor alone
> >> would be a dead giveaway (all of our screens are LCD now) and the
> >> integrated keyboard... Oh well..
>
> >A Timex Sinclair 1000/zx81 would send a pretty clear message...
>
> I don't know - IIRC, they used to boot a lot faster than modern PCs.

Rom based OS's are great!

You should drop this on there desk, though there prob wouldn;t be
enough room.

http://home.comcast.net/~polishedball/counter.jpg

From: Leif Bloomquist on 24 Mar 2010 21:19
Go for an abacus!


From: Andreas Meerbann on 25 Mar 2010 08:36

maybe you find an old PONG Videogame and an old 14" CRT-TV set?

Given the devices you have available I'd say the breadbox-64 would fit
best. The recognition factor would be quite high esp because a lot
people know it even when they have never used one. And again please
attach a small CRT-TV. And a datasette maybe? Don't try to match the
colours - C64 systems where always thrown together from different
components because nobody could afford to by a full system in one go.
So it was alway's grandma's old kitchen TV + the 64 + a datasette + a
brand new floppy 1541-II which came as a present last christmas. Do
you have a CP/M cartridge maybe (to give it some kind of professional
touch)?

please take pictures and don't forget to post them!

Andreas


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