Hi folks,
I posted this message tonight to a couple of Altair
sites, but might as well
ask on the big list too: does anyone know about the
existence of a portable
Altair, which was designed as the "Altair 2"...?
According to Steven Levy's
book "Hackers" (p. 257), by mid-1976, Ed Roberts
"had been designing an
exciting new Altair 2 computer -- a high-powered,
compact machine which
could fit inside a briefcase" before selling the
company to Pertec.
I'm more interested in the computer's size / form
factor than its technical
abilities, since I mostly study the history of
portable systems.
- Evan
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Evan Koblentz's personal homepage:
http://www.snarc.net
Also see:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/
Where did PDAs come from?
http://www.snarc.net/pda/pda-treatise.htm
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