11 Jan
1998
11 Jan
'98
3:44 p.m.
At 06:52 AM 1/11/98, you wrote:
I don't know if he did or not but the Altair wasn't announced til
January 1976 or 77 (I don't remember which but I have the magazine that it
was announced in.) The IBM 5100 was already in production in 1975.
Close, the Altair 8800 was introduced as the cover project in the January
1975 issue of Popular Electroncs.
-jim
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At 04:38 PM 1/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Joe wrote:
>> I think the credit on this one has to go to the IBM 5100 again. It
was
released in 1975.
Is it not true, then, that Ed Roberts coined the term 'personal computer'
to describe the Altair? (That's the legend I've been led to believe.)