On 20 Nov 2009 at 1:21, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
  In every picture I've seen, the Apple I's
board has been
 wave-soldered. 
 I recall that there was some chatter about being able to buy the bare
 PCB, but it never happened as far as I knew.  I only saw the
 completed boards.  With only 4K of memory, I wasn't interested--I
 already had my MITS box with 8K and several of my friends had IMSAIs.
 Discussion at the time in my circle usually centered around how much
 better constructed the IMSAI box was than the MITS.  I couldn't
 argue.  Within about a year, I had an IMSAI, then migrated to an
 Integrand box.  But I still have the lowly and dusty Altair sitting
 on a shelf...
 The 6502 to me always seemed to be a little "brain dead" compared to
 the 8080.  But that was a subject then of much debate.
 I'm still trying to remember who, about that time, brought out a 6502
 S100 board.  Was it Solid State Music?
 --Chuck 
I miss my altair 8800.  And my northstar horizon (think it was) and my
morrow MDIII and..... -sigh-