23 May
1999
23 May
'99
12:17 a.m.
Like Tim said, nont one member of LICA has a
"pure" machine. Some part
was non stock and often the reason was price or availability. I can't say
how many Altair and IMSAIs with floppies from neither vendor were seen.
Or, as I understand the rules, it would penalize someone who hooked
a Model 33 Teletype to their Altair because MITS didn't make the Teletype.
Yet the Teletype is the most singularly classic input/output peripheral
of the era. And if you didn't have a Teletype, users generally had some
surplus keyboard hooked to their S-100 box (heck, look at the very first
issue of _BYTE_ which features "surplus keyboards" as the cover story!).
Yet again, you get penalized in the judging for configuring your machine
as it would have typically been configured by an actual user in that day.
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