4 Jan
2001
4 Jan
'01
7:39 p.m.
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Doug Salot wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
s/Percom/Pertec
(call me a smart-ass ;)
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MITS built them with a disk, didin't they? I
can't imagine how the
dress-panel saying "Altair Hard Disk Controller" got on these boxes. The
box bearing "Altair Floppy Disk Drive" on the front dress panel suggests the
MITS people didn't feel the system was complete without one. I got these
boxes in '81 or so, as they were liquidated from a MITS inventory auction,
and I got a load of transformers as well.
FWIW, I think all of the Altair disk subsystems were spawned after Percom
bought MITS. IIRC, ICOM made a third-party disk subsystem for the Altair,
and then Percom ended up buying ICOM around the same time they bought
MITS.