7 Dec
1998
7 Dec
'98
7:39 p.m.
Could you photocopy articles, and advertisements pertaining to Altair? Gates
open letter to hobbyists about piracy? I will gladly take those.
David
7 Dec
7 Dec
9:02 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998 DaveyGF(a)aol.com wrote:
Could you photocopy articles, and advertisements
pertaining to Altair? Gates
open letter to hobbyists about piracy? I will gladly take those.
There's a copy of the Gates letter here:
http://www.yowza.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
If you'd like to send me *private* mail with specific issues/articles
you're looking for, I can probably help you with your Altair fixation :-)
<soapbox>
BTW, I took a look at your web site. As you probably know, the $12,100
Altair didn't sell, and it makes it more difficult for *enthusiasts* and
preservationists to get their own Altairs when such misperceptions are out
there. In fact, there are collectors on this list who don't even feel
comfortable discussing machines in their collection because of the
speculator interest such machines attract. This is a Bad Thing.
You also position MITS as an innovator in the calculator market on par
with HP. HP started making calculators in 1968, and I think it's safe to
say that HP's 1968 *calculator* was more sophisticated and innovative than
MITS' 1975 *computer*. And HP's 1972 desktop computer had BASIC built-in
several years before Gates et al decided to try to make money by selling
their me-too product.
</soapbox>
-- Doug
8 Dec
8 Dec
9:31 a.m.
I took a quick look at the first issues of DDJ, and the stuff that looks
like it might be of interest to Altair owners is:
Feb 1976 reprint of May 1975 PCC, Steve Dompier's "Music of a Sort", 2pp
A couple of letters in the March 1976 issue that make references to MITS
recall of the 8K RAM board and of their poor docs, 2pp
[Cool, the June 1976 issue has a nice looking 6502 S-100 SBC from Western
Data Systems]
[Interesting, there's an Aug 1976 article that talks about how stable CP/M
has been for the last two years. What did he write it for in 1974? An
Intellec?]
Oct 1976, Pertec buys iCom, 1p.
Nov 1976, Jef Raskin on the Poly-88 where he compares it the the Altair
and IMSAI, 3pp.
That's about it in 1976 -- very little about the Altair, and *nothing*
about Microsoft BASIC (odd for a programming journal, but not surprising
given their association with Tiny BASIC, I suppose).
Reading through this stuff, I'm reminded that I don't have copies of the
earlier PCC stuff or any of the earlier club newsletters. Photocopy
trades, anyone?
-- Doug
9:53 a.m.
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
[Interesting, there's an Aug 1976 article that
talks about how stable CP/M
has been for the last two years. What did he write it for in 1974? An
Intellec?]
Yes.
Reading through this stuff, I'm reminded that I
don't have copies of the
earlier PCC stuff or any of the earlier club newsletters. Photocopy
trades, anyone?
I need copies of the PCC newsletter and volume 1 of the Homebrew Computer
Club newsletter (I have Vol 2- the end).
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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1:48 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Of course, to tie in the other Altair thread, the
Intellec, for all it
was the first CP/M machine, is nowhere near as valuable as an Altair...
It's probably more valuable than an Altair, but less expensive :-)
We can fix that, though. Just get Robert X. Cringley to do a piece on the
*real* early microcomputers that came directly out of Intel, and watch the
price sky-rocket....
-- Doug
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1:53 p.m.
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, AFAIK it was an Intellec something-or-other. The
MDS800 cbios
listing is the one included with 'generic' CP/M kits.
Yup
Of course, to tie in the other Altair thread, the
Intellec, for all it
was the first CP/M machine, is nowhere near as valuable as an Altair...
MINE is! I love the old BIG Blue (well - it IS kinda blue) Boxes.
BC
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