I case anyone is interested...
I've just passed on my "Mits Altair 8800" - this is a very historic system
from the 70s - it is:
First Personal Computer (long before IBM PC)
First S100 buss system
First system Bill Gates wrote code for (long before Microsoft)
I did write a pretty decent emul
I had the good fortune of visiting The Computer Museum in Boston in the summer
of 1984. Reading the museum's Wikipedia article, it appears I was there while
they were still freshly setting up their Museum Wharf location, yet hadn't
officially opened yet. Unfortunately I only had an hour (or li
On 5/23/24 12:53, Dave Dunfield via cctalk wrote:
> I've just passed on my "Mits Altair 8800" - this is a very historic system
> from the 70s - it is:
> First Personal Computer (long before IBM PC)
> First S100 buss system
> First system Bill Gates wrote code for (long before Microsoft)
I d
I think if you can find that colleague of yours again and then say “who is
laughing now?”
Regards,
Tarek Hoteit
AI Consultant, PhD
+1 360-838-3675
> On May 23, 2024, at 16:05, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 5/23/24 12:53, Dave Dunfield via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I've just passed on my
I have a vague memory of visiting the Computer Museum when it was still at DEC,
in the Marlboro building (MRO-n). About the only item I recall is a Goodyear
STARAN computer (or piece of one). I found it rather surprising to have see a
computer made by a tire company. I learned years later tha
On Thu, 23 May 2024, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I couldn't wait to show it to a female working in my section. She
dropped by my apartment, took one look at the thing sitting on my
kitchen table and burst out laughing. "That's not a computer; it's a
toy!" was her withering reaction.
I don't k
When my wife (now my ex-wife) told me during a move that my 2 PDP-8/E
racks were not going to the new apartment because there wasn't room for
her roll top desk and my computer. And told me "they go or you go with
them but they are not moving with us", I should have seen the signs and
gone with
The MCM/70 was a Canadian invention though not certain it was a 'first' in
the microcomputer world. Some say the Kenbak 1 was. The Altair 8800, as I
argue, the first to reach a large audience. It demonstrated what was
possible to non-computer people.
Happy computing,
Murray :)
On Thu, May 23,
