Top 150 Collectible Microcomputers - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

18 Jun 1999

Polymorphic originally called it the "Micro Altair" until MITS threatened to
sue them, and they renamed it the POLY-88.

Kai

-----Original Message-----
From: Dwight Elvey [mailto:elvey@hal.com]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:52 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re[2]: Top 150 Collectible Microcomputers

Marvin &lt;marvin(a)rain.org&gt; wrote:
...

  Polymorphic Systems POLY-88  
 I have asked a few people but so far no response. Since this was originally
...
  named the Micro-Altair, did any of those machines
actually get shipped with
...
  that name? If so, I would consider them to be rather
rare and worthy of a
 separate listing. 

Say Huh?
 The Poly-88 was not an Altair. It was made by a group
in Santa Barbara. I have one, they were manufactured and
sold as a product called Poly-88.
Dwight