25 Jul
2015
25 Jul
'15
10:27 p.m.
That does sound like a MITS serial no. The K is for Kit as opposed to factory assembled.
"drlegendre ." <drlegendre at gmail.com> wrote:
What's the significance of "3462K", as is
hand-written on the 8080 CPU
board?
Is that a serial?
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> On 2015-Jul-25, at 8:33 AM, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
> > Dwight wrote:
> >> Dave, you were going to tell us where you found it?
> >> Dwight
> >
> > Probably in Larry Niven's Altair?
>
> Indeed, it's in one of his flickr photos of the LN Altair.
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/32548582 at
N02/sets/72157653950476154/with/19938469936/
>
>
26 Jul
26 Jul
7:41 a.m.
Looking at the flicker for Larry Niven's machine, I see it hada Polymorphic video
card. The machine would have had a parallelkey board. You can see it had the keyboard
connector wiredto it.The drive has the controller built into it, similar to the Digital
Systemsdrive. It would have had a bus interface card but I don't see itin the
pictures. I suppose it is lost.If it is like the Digital Systems, it wouldn't need
boot ROMs becausethe disk can self boot.Dwight
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