26 May
1999
26 May
'99
12:56 a.m.
A stock computer is generally more representative of
the original. However,
there are definitely some cases where a modification was required to the
original to fix a bug that came from the factory and was pretty much
mandatory if that machine was to be useful.
The question was clearly not understood. The CT1042 is a 16line by 32
character terminal board that can drive a TV or monitor. the single most
desireable mod for it was to get 64characters per line. That mod was
widely done and improved the usefulness.
used with the computer to make it a whole system would
make for a better
exhibit. An Altair with an Altair VCT or Comter terminal would probably
That would
be anything but typical as the average Altair in 1976 didn't
have mass storage. The rules for the machine in the gap between the
mark-8 and the trs80 (~1974 ->late 1977) really dont fit that pattern.
it was the days of a TTY was 1000$ and a used VT05 terminal easily 500$.
Software was typically casette tape or paper tape. Someone in 1978 that
showed upat a club with non-tty terminal and a disk system was usually the
subject of the entire meeting! That tended to persist through 1980 as
TRS80s an apples were off in their own groups.
Also what about those that were using systems like the KIM-1, IMP48, EVK68
and a bunch of other SBCs that were so typical before the advent of the
cheap single peice systems like the trs80s.
The s100 world it was very typical to mix and match components from
several vendors based on considerations like price or preference like
static ram VS dynamic ram.
llison