22 May
2013
22 May
'13
4:03 p.m.
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 17:18:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
I just noticed that the cover of the January 1975 Popular Electronics
calls the Altair 8800 a "Minicomputer"!
How authoritative would we consider THEM for the definition?
I was just at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, I saw a PDP-8, an
Altair and an Imsai, and I couldn't help thinking how much alike they looked.
And since the Altair is in the running for the title of the first
commercial Microcomputer, it's not surprising someone would have used
an older term to describe it.
Phil