Depending on the exact time frame, it could be the DEC VAX 11/730 that was
the machine everyone was drooling over. Or the IBM S/38.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
Richard
Erlacher said:
The Altair was never a computer that one
interested in computing
would have bought for what the kit cost....
So what Was the serious computer to buy for that era?
It would probably be impossibly expensive, leaving many,
including the serious, without anything.
John A.
DEC something?
Tandy 10?
Basic4?
Rotten core, I can't remember the one I really want to, Micron 100, maybe
something with an A or T at the start, but it was a whole chassis with
smoked glass doors etc., not some hobby machine.