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Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
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In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
I didn't think they still used these dinosaurs for keeping inventory and such. I only assumed they were used now for those geeks out there who keep and use them for 1337 purposes.
This ancient bugger calls Canadian Tire home.
This venerable 1984 vintage Apple IIc is similar to the II+ I had a generation ago. My II+ cost my mom about $2000 or so. This was a $12.00 thrift shop find last week.
A 'cool new kid' on the budding home computer block when I was something of a new kid myself, this dusty Apple fired right up after plugging in and connecting to a rather modern portable LCD screen with a video cable.
My 3 year old $3500 Dell XPS doesn't even fire up on the first try. Now where's my copy of Dan Gorlin's Choplifter and Richard Garriott's Ultima series?
I fired up my old Apple 2c computer tonight and it was quite an experience. While doing so, I found some of the basic language programs I had written and forgotten about, such as my movie catalog program that played music when it started up. It sure brought back some old memories!
This was my first computer - in my dorm room from 1997. This was an AMD K6 with a 166mhz processor. The monitor is still in use but the computer is long gone - taken apart by kids at a local school.
This is a CTX computer and monitor that I got from Office Max my second year of college. This was actually a floor model so there was a discount. I remember hooking it into the campus network and taking forever to get it to work. I downloaded a lot of stuff to this computer.
My new old Apple PB 520c! I actually just got two from a nearby business that was giving (!) them away. Now to put them together and make a fun but heavy notebook.
Rowan's description: "Ah, it's an early-on turbo model, 90s, a 286 I think. IBM compatible"
Later (he's taken it to bits): it's a 386SX actually
Dimension 2350 Intel Pentium 4 Processor @ 2.20GHz with
512K L2 Cache 128MB DDR-SDRAM 17 inch Monitor
I purchased this second hand when I started collecting and had it sent down from Queensland. The Ohio Scientific computers were interesting: I gather that this and the 8P were intended for home automation, hence the huge number of ports at the back. I was told that it was horrible to work on in winter, as the fan pushed cold air up through the keyboard.
One of the first 1000 Apple IIGS signed by Woz (he bought it for $1000 in 1986) and his new iPhone 3GS ($299 - he had a first gen iPhone which was recently stolen on the 22, so he was able to get the good price).
oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html
iPhone launch at MacWorld, the long lines of the debut, the 3G, iPhone devcamps, and more at
One of the first 1000 Apple IIGS signed by Woz (he bought it for $1000 in 1986) and his new iPhone 3GS ($299 - he had a first gen iPhone which was recently stolen on the 22, so he was able to get the good price).
oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html
iPhone launch at MacWorld, the long lines of the debut, the 3G, iPhone devcamps, and more at
Simvol IK clone of ZX Spectrum 48K
Игровой компьютер «Символ»
CPU: КР1858ВМ1 or Т34ВМ1 (Z80A russian clone)
CPU clock: 4 MHz
Chipset: Т34ВГ1 (ULA russian clone)
Memory: 16K ROM + 48K RAM
Firmware: Sinclair 1982 or Didaktik Scalica 1989
Video: RGB or b/w monitor or TV
Audio: 1-channel beeper (on PCB) and audio output to monitor/TV
Input: KEMPSTON Joystick compatible interface (in chipset), tape, mechanic keyboard.
Enchanced functions: possibility of install КР580ВВ55 chip — parallel interface for printer (Centronics), CPU system bus (not installed, but placed on PCB).
Sofware compatibility with ZX Spectrum 48K
SIze: 270 x 170 x 60 mm
Weight: <1,1 kg
Power: +5V, <3W
Temp: 10°C — 35°C
Origin: Russia, Penza city, 1994
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Simvol IK clone of ZX Spectrum 48K
Игровой компьютер «Символ»
CPU: КР1858ВМ1 or Т34ВМ1 (Z80A russian clone)
CPU clock: 4 MHz
Chipset: Т34ВГ1 (ULA russian clone)
Memory: 16K ROM + 48K RAM
Firmware: Sinclair 1982 or Didaktik Scalica 1989
Video: RGB or b/w monitor or TV
Audio: 1-channel beeper (on PCB) and audio output to monitor/TV
Input: KEMPSTON Joystick compatible interface (in chipset), tape, mechanic keyboard.
Enchanced functions: possibility of install КР580ВВ55 chip — parallel interface for printer (Centronics), CPU system bus (not installed, but placed on PCB).
Sofware compatibility with ZX Spectrum 48K
SIze: 270 x 170 x 60 mm
Weight: <1,1 kg
Power: +5V, <3W
Temp: 10°C — 35°C
Origin: Russia, Penza city, 1994
Commodore Amiga 500, Commodore Amiga 1081 monitor, The Arcade joystick, Hitachi boombox. And the Settlers!!!
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.