James LinI was at #vcfwest at the Computer History Museum today, and I ran across a few computers from Poland. @mwichary, do you know about these?
Marcin Wichary@jlin Not the last one!!!
@mwichary When you say “the last one”, which one do you mean?
@jlin The newest one, apparently from 2014.
@mwichary Ah, the modern revival of the Cobra computer. Did you use any of these growing up?
@jlin No, Elwros and Meritums were severely limited and I think available only at selected institutions. I have not heard much of private use.
@jlin I would love to. I was hoping to make it to VCF this year but travel plans interfered (in NYC instead).
@mwichary Ah, it would have been fun to meet up there! But meanwhile, hopefully you can make it to VCF Midwest in September in Schaumburg, Illinois, not too far away from you. Maybe those computers will show up there too! https://vcfmw.org/