Make magazine interviews Forest Mims about Ed Roberts

I read the 1975 Popular Electronics but I never owned an Altair computer. I did build an IMSAI 8080 for someone else and used a Processor Technology SOL; my system of choice was the Southwest Technical Products 6800. I few years ago I started improving the Altair 8800 article on Wikipedia and ended up doing a lot of detailed research on Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems. Bruce Damer of DigiBarn gave Forrest Mims my name and I ended up writing several more Wikipedia articles on MITS and the Altair. I would get Forrest to review my work and he also provided details and photographs. In November of last year, Forrest told Bruce and me about Ed Roberts's illness. I started a new biography on Ed Roberts that I finished in March and placed it on Wikipedia. The only MITS product I ever owned was a copy of Altair 680 BASIC that I bought to use on my SWTPC6800 computer. I ended up being a historian on Altair and MITS. Here are some of my Wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Telemetry_Systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computers) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_Rocketry_(magazine) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Mims http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 I could use some pictures of Altair boards, especially a 4K Dynamic RAM board. Michael Holley swtpc at comcast.net -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Christian Liendo Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:52 AM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Make magazine interviews Forest Mims about Ed Roberts http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/remembering_ed_roberts_the_fath er_o.html