If you're ever in my office perusing my bookshelf of computer references, there is one odd title you will run across: It is "Scooter Computer & Mr. Chips: The Computer in the Candy Store" by Leslie McGuire. And while it is not my childhood copy of the book, it's there for a reason: one of my relatives gifted it to me in the past due to my desire at the time, despite never seeing or owning one, of wanting a computer.
Don't knock me for putting two and two together as a very young child from things I heard from my uncle...
Anyways, as a very big child now, I would very much like to build a model Mr. Chips. And while from the cover of this book, I can recognize that Scooter Computer wore Adidas shoes, and his friend Arthur wore Converse All Star shoes at a five-second glance of the cover, despite illustrator John Costanza's purposeful mimicking of products, I am stumped as to what model, or dare I say models, of computer that Mr. Chips was modeled after...
It's very possible that Costanza came up with a drawing that didn't match any particular micro of the time, but something tells me that there might be a micro -- or terminal -- that looks very similar out there.
To give me a starting place for my long-term goal to build a Mr. Chips, does anyone see a similarity of Mr. Chips to any real micro or terminal out there?
Don't knock me for putting two and two together as a very young child from things I heard from my uncle...
Anyways, as a very big child now, I would very much like to build a model Mr. Chips. And while from the cover of this book, I can recognize that Scooter Computer wore Adidas shoes, and his friend Arthur wore Converse All Star shoes at a five-second glance of the cover, despite illustrator John Costanza's purposeful mimicking of products, I am stumped as to what model, or dare I say models, of computer that Mr. Chips was modeled after...
It's very possible that Costanza came up with a drawing that didn't match any particular micro of the time, but something tells me that there might be a micro -- or terminal -- that looks very similar out there.
To give me a starting place for my long-term goal to build a Mr. Chips, does anyone see a similarity of Mr. Chips to any real micro or terminal out there?
