I had a Spectra Video, and I do remember fondly for allowing to experiment with fractal and all sorts of programming in BASIC.
I recently watched the Steve Jobs movie and it was nice seeing how Apple was promoting that stage of early personal computers. On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 6:52 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@vex.net> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:56:07 +0200 > Joe <t...@joepgen.com> wrote: > > Am 30.08.2016 um 13:01 schrieb D'Arcy J.M. Cain: > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 21:21:05 -0700 > > > Larry Hudson via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > >> I remember it well. It's what I used to initially learn C. I'm a > > >> completely self-taught, hobby programmer. Been around since the > > >> MITS Altair. How many remember that beast?? > > > > > > Remember it and still have it in the basement. > > > > > I read a lot about the Altair in Byte in those days, but never had a > > chance to touch it. Wasn't it horrible expensive? > > I can't remember what is was going for but I bought mine used for > $1,000. It had a number of add-ons including a keyboard and floppy > drives. The power supply was also beefed up. > > It also had a replacement bezel. It seems that the original Altair's > silk screened front panel was crappy and rubbed off easily. Some > company sold one but it says "Cycloid" instead of "Altair" on it. > > -- > D'Arcy J.M. Cain > System Administrator, Vex.Net > http://www.Vex.Net/ IM:da...@vex.net > VoIP: sip:da...@vex.net > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Sivan Greenberg Co founder & CTO Vitakka Consulting -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
