1 Feb
1999
1 Feb
'99
2:39 p.m.
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Sam Ismail wrote:
One must wonder where this box ended up though. It
had to have landed in
someone's lap. My guess is that by coincidence it landed in the hands of
someone who'd been wanting an Altair and maybe wished for one the night
before it was accidentally delivered to their doorstep. So he kept it
thinking his wish came true.
C'mon, I thought you knew your shrikwrapped Altair folklore: Ed Roberts
was toiling away on unsuccessful calculators and other gadgets in the New
Mexico desert, when an indian chief shared his pipe with him. Roberts saw
many things that night. After several UFOs, aliens, and half-human /
half-coyote people native to that region of New Mexico finally left,
Roberts suddenly knew:
* how to build a computer
* where the Star Ship Enterprise was going that week
* and to hire a kid named Bill Gates
Everything went fine until he tried to ship the first machine to Sol Libes
via freight train. The train entered the Bermuda Triangle and was never
seen again. However, if you watch the episode of Star Trek that was aired
that night, you'll see a strange blue box that appears in the transporter
room after Spock returns from the planet Imsai. Weird, huh?
-- Doug