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The adventure begins!<\/h2>\n

By Philippe Dubois, Chairman.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to the first article devoted to the adventure of the Micral N and its restoration by the MO5 association!<\/p>\n

For this first article, here's the story and photos of the purchase of the Micral N from the seller by the MO5 association. It was on 20 January 2021 that we received an extraordinary e-mail, which we had to read several times to be sure we weren't dreaming:<\/p>\n

\"Good morning,<\/em><\/p>\n

I'm contacting you because I have a Micral computer.<\/em>
\nI want to sell it and I thought of your association for reasons of heritage and your commitment.<\/em>
\nI seem to remember that at the 2017 auction for the same machine surely more complete you could not follow this American !!!<\/em><\/p>\n

Before considering an auction, I would like to talk to you.<\/em>
\nIf you're interested, I'll leave you my contact details so that we can discuss it face-to-face.<\/em><\/p>\n

Have a nice day,<\/em>
\nChristophe xx\" (Editor's note: we will only refer to the seller by his first name, in accordance with his wishes)<\/em><\/p>\n

I immediately replied to the other people in charge of the association, who had also just received the e-mail, that I was going to contact the seller immediately. In fact, the very same day, and a little nervous, I called the person in question, and the purchase was already in progress.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, the MO5 association and the Micral N have a long history of love. We first met in 1999 in Paris when its inventor, Fran\u00e7ois Gernelle, invited me to a press conference to demonstrate his personal copy of the Micral N, which he donated to the Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers in 2006.<\/p>\n

Then, in 2006, the MO5 association, led by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Del Nero, our chief electronics engineer, wanted to study the example belonging to the Cit\u00e9 des Sciences, currently in the collections of the Mus\u00e9e des Confluences in Lyon, in order to understand how it worked, but unfortunately it was not possible to gain access to it.<\/p>\n

\"L'exemplaire<\/p>\n

The copy of Micral N donated by Pierre Mounier-Kuhn to the Cit\u00e9 des Sciences de la Villette. Photo David Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 2017, the benevolent French collecting community alerted the MO5 association to the fact that an auction of a Micral N accompanied by numerous accessories and documentation was going to take place at the Ch\u00e2teau d'Artigny. The association decided to take part in the auction and contacted a number of influential figures in the French digital world in order to obtain financial support. Unfortunately for France's heritage, the Micral was sold for nearly \u20ac50,000 to Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, and shipped to Seattle. Paul Allen then donated the Micral N to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle.<\/p>\n

A year later, sadly, Mr Allen passed away. His daughter took over her father's business and decided to cut off the museum's funding. At present, the copy of Micral N sent to Seattle is nowhere to be found, in an unknown condition. It might as well be lost.<\/p>\n

\"Le<\/p>\n

The Micral N sold at auction in 2017 and bought by Paul Allen, co-creator of Microsoft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It was therefore a wonderful opportunity for the association to receive this offer to acquire and restore a copy of Micral N ourselves. The seller's father, whose company was based a stone's throw from R2E, had learned of the existence of this microcomputer at the time, and why it was revolutionary. So he bought a copy of the Micral N directly from R2E, and that's the one we now have.<\/p>\n

After our initial discussions, here are the first photos we received from the seller. These are particularly important, because it's essential to know immediately before committing ourselves whether we're dealing with a genuine Micral N, and not a copy or a doctored machine. The answer is fairly obvious from the photos sent by Christophe<\/em> :<\/p>\n

\"L'exemplaire<\/a><\/p>\n

The copy of Micral N offered to the MO5 association<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"Vue<\/a><\/p>\n

View from behind the machine, revealing the internal boards and power plugs<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The association therefore accepted the offer from the seller, who did not wish to divulge his name as we had indicated in the campaign. Once the financial proposal had been validated, we proposed an appointment as soon as possible to come and see and collect the precious machine.<\/p>\n

\"Philippe<\/p>\n

Philippe Dubois, Chairman, and David Soumet, Vice-Chairman, on the road to acquisition<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

So we got on the train with David Soumet, vice-president of the MO5 association, and Jorge, who accompanied us to take photos and videos of the meeting. Christophe<\/em> arranged to meet us at a hotel not far from his home so that we could see the machine, touch it and make sure that everything was in order before we set off again.<\/p>\n

\"Philippe<\/p>\n

Philippe Dubois, David Soumet and Micral N salesman Christophe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

After this very pleasant meeting for the small team, Christophe<\/em> having known the association for some time and appreciated our work, we headed back to Paris with a suitcase loaded with the precious loot to put the machine in a collection, ready to be studied.<\/p>\n

\"Le<\/p>\n

The Micral N has finally arrived in its new home at the MO5 association premises.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Now we'll be able to take a close look at this magnificent example of Micral N, to judge its general condition and meticulously study what's inside. But that's a story for another article next week!<\/p>\n

In the meantime, please don't forget to take part in the campaign to support our work! https:\/\/micral.mo5.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L’aventure commence ! Par Philippe Dubois, Pr\u00e9sident. Bonjour et bienvenue sur le premier article consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 l’aventure du Micral N et sa restauration par l’association MO5 ! Pour ce premier article, voici le r\u00e9cit et les photos de l’acquisition du Micral N aupr\u00e8s du vendeur par l’association MO5. C’est le 20 janvier 2021 que nous avons re\u00e7u un mail extraordinaire, qu’il nous a fallu relire plusieurs fois pour \u00eatre certains de ne pas r\u00eaver : “Bonjour, Je vous contacte car je suis en possession d\u2019un ordinateur Micral. Je souhaite le vendre et j\u2019ai pens\u00e9 \u00e0 votre asso pour des raisons de patrimoine et de votre engagement. Je crois me souvenir que lors de la vente aux ench\u00e8res de 2017 pour la m\u00eame machine s\u00fbrement plus compl\u00e8te vous n\u2019avez pas pu suivre cet am\u00e9ricain !! Je souhaite avant d\u2019envisager une ench\u00e8re privil\u00e9gier le dialogue avec vous. Si cela vous int\u00e9resse\u00a0je vous laisse mes coordonn\u00e9es afin d\u2019en discuter de vive voix. Bonne journ\u00e9e, Christophe xx” (NDLR: nous ne nommerons le vendeur que par son pr\u00e9nom, selon son souhait) J’ai moi-m\u00eame r\u00e9pondu imm\u00e9diatement aux autres responsables de l’association, qui venaient eux aussi de recevoir l\u2019e-mail, que j’allais contacter le vendeur imm\u00e9diatement. En effet, le jour m\u00eame et un peu f\u00e9brile, j’appelle la personne en question, et l’acquisition est d\u00e9j\u00e0 en cours. Pour rappel, l\u2019association MO5 et le Micral N, c\u2019est une longue histoire d\u2019amour. C\u2019est une premi\u00e8re rencontre en 1999 \u00e0 Paris lorsque son inventeur, Fran\u00e7ois Gernelle, m’a invit\u00e9 \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence de presse pour faire une d\u00e9monstration de son exemplaire personnel du Micral N, dont il fait don en 2006 au Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers. Puis en 2006, l\u2019association MO5 sous l’impulsion de Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Del Nero, notre \u00e9lectronicien en chef, a voulu \u00e9tudier l\u2019exemplaire appartenant \u00e0 la Cit\u00e9 des Sciences, actuellement dans les collections du Mus\u00e9e des Confluences \u00e0 Lyon, afin d\u2019en comprendre le fonctionnement, malheureusement sans possibilit\u00e9 d’y acc\u00e9der. En 2017, la bienveillante communaut\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de collectionneurs a averti l’association MO5 qu’une vente aux ench\u00e8res d\u2019un Micral N accompagn\u00e9 de nombreux accessoires et documentations allait avoir lieu au ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Artigny. L\u2019association a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de participer \u00e0 l\u2019ench\u00e8re et a contact\u00e9 plusieurs personnalit\u00e9s influentes du num\u00e9rique fran\u00e7ais afin d\u2019obtenir un soutien financier. Malheureusement pour le patrimoine fran\u00e7ais, cet exemplaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu pr\u00e8s de 50 000 \u20ac au cofondateur de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Microsoft, Paul Allen, puis exp\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 Seattle. Paul Allen a ensuite donn\u00e9 ce Micral N au Living Computer Museum de Seattle. Un an plus tard, malheureusement, M. Allen nous a quitt\u00e9s. Sa fille reprenant les affaires de son p\u00e8re, elle a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de couper les vivres au mus\u00e9e. Actuellement, l’exemplaire de Micral N envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 Seattle est introuvable, dans un \u00e9tat inconnu. Il est peut-\u00eatre tout aussi bien perdu. C’est donc pour l’association une formidable opportunit\u00e9 d’avoir re\u00e7u cette offre pour acqu\u00e9rir et restaurer nous-m\u00eames un exemplaire de Micral N. Le p\u00e8re du vendeur, dont la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 si\u00e9geait \u00e0 deux pas de la R2E, avait appris \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque lors d\u2019une conversation l\u2019existence de ce micro-ordinateur, et pourquoi il \u00e9tait r\u00e9volutionnaire. Il avait donc achet\u00e9 un exemplaire du Micral N […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1496,1485],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-micral"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAcquisition du Micral N par l'association MO5 - MO5.COM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mo5.com\/en\/micral-article1\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Acquisition du Micral N par l'association MO5 - MO5.COM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"L'aventure commence ! 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Par Philippe Dubois, Pr\u00e9sident. Bonjour et bienvenue sur le premier article consacr\u00e9 \u00e0 l'aventure du Micral N et sa restauration par l'association MO5 ! Pour ce premier article, voici le r\u00e9cit et les photos de l'acquisition du Micral N aupr\u00e8s du vendeur par l'association MO5. C'est le 20 janvier 2021 que nous avons re\u00e7u un mail extraordinaire, qu'il nous a fallu relire plusieurs fois pour \u00eatre certains de ne pas r\u00eaver : \"Bonjour, Je vous contacte car je suis en possession d\u2019un ordinateur Micral. Je souhaite le vendre et j\u2019ai pens\u00e9 \u00e0 votre asso pour des raisons de patrimoine et de votre engagement. Je crois me souvenir que lors de la vente aux ench\u00e8res de 2017 pour la m\u00eame machine s\u00fbrement plus compl\u00e8te vous n\u2019avez pas pu suivre cet am\u00e9ricain !! Je souhaite avant d\u2019envisager une ench\u00e8re privil\u00e9gier le dialogue avec vous. Si cela vous int\u00e9resse\u00a0je vous laisse mes coordonn\u00e9es afin d\u2019en discuter de vive voix. Bonne journ\u00e9e, Christophe xx\" (NDLR: nous ne nommerons le vendeur que par son pr\u00e9nom, selon son souhait) J'ai moi-m\u00eame r\u00e9pondu imm\u00e9diatement aux autres responsables de l'association, qui venaient eux aussi de recevoir l\u2019e-mail, que j'allais contacter le vendeur imm\u00e9diatement. En effet, le jour m\u00eame et un peu f\u00e9brile, j'appelle la personne en question, et l'acquisition est d\u00e9j\u00e0 en cours. Pour rappel, l\u2019association MO5 et le Micral N, c\u2019est une longue histoire d\u2019amour. C\u2019est une premi\u00e8re rencontre en 1999 \u00e0 Paris lorsque son inventeur, Fran\u00e7ois Gernelle, m'a invit\u00e9 \u00e0 une conf\u00e9rence de presse pour faire une d\u00e9monstration de son exemplaire personnel du Micral N, dont il fait don en 2006 au Mus\u00e9e des Arts et M\u00e9tiers. Puis en 2006, l\u2019association MO5 sous l'impulsion de Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Del Nero, notre \u00e9lectronicien en chef, a voulu \u00e9tudier l\u2019exemplaire appartenant \u00e0 la Cit\u00e9 des Sciences, actuellement dans les collections du Mus\u00e9e des Confluences \u00e0 Lyon, afin d\u2019en comprendre le fonctionnement, malheureusement sans possibilit\u00e9 d'y acc\u00e9der. En 2017, la bienveillante communaut\u00e9 fran\u00e7aise de collectionneurs a averti l'association MO5 qu'une vente aux ench\u00e8res d\u2019un Micral N accompagn\u00e9 de nombreux accessoires et documentations allait avoir lieu au ch\u00e2teau d\u2019Artigny. L\u2019association a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de participer \u00e0 l\u2019ench\u00e8re et a contact\u00e9 plusieurs personnalit\u00e9s influentes du num\u00e9rique fran\u00e7ais afin d\u2019obtenir un soutien financier. Malheureusement pour le patrimoine fran\u00e7ais, cet exemplaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu pr\u00e8s de 50 000 \u20ac au cofondateur de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Microsoft, Paul Allen, puis exp\u00e9di\u00e9 \u00e0 Seattle. Paul Allen a ensuite donn\u00e9 ce Micral N au Living Computer Museum de Seattle. Un an plus tard, malheureusement, M. Allen nous a quitt\u00e9s. Sa fille reprenant les affaires de son p\u00e8re, elle a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de couper les vivres au mus\u00e9e. Actuellement, l'exemplaire de Micral N envoy\u00e9 \u00e0 Seattle est introuvable, dans un \u00e9tat inconnu. Il est peut-\u00eatre tout aussi bien perdu. C'est donc pour l'association une formidable opportunit\u00e9 d'avoir re\u00e7u cette offre pour acqu\u00e9rir et restaurer nous-m\u00eames un exemplaire de Micral N. Le p\u00e8re du vendeur, dont la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 si\u00e9geait \u00e0 deux pas de la R2E, avait appris \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque lors d\u2019une conversation l\u2019existence de ce micro-ordinateur, et pourquoi il \u00e9tait r\u00e9volutionnaire. 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