The very first personal computers - How many are left? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Apr 2003

...
   Move it over
one decimal place to the left.  From what I know, about
 50,000 Altair's of all models were produced.  Math check: move the decimal
RIGHT (i.e. at least 5,000). 
  Instead of throwing number around forever, why doesn't
someone just ask Steve Shepard? He was a customer service
rep. (or something like that) for MITS. And at one time
he maintained a list of all of MITS customers.

 Next, someone could ask Todd Fischer about the number of IMSAIs.
Or ask Lee Felsenstein and Bob Marsh about SOL 10s and 20s.
Or ask Jon Titus about the Mark-8.
etc. 
etc. 
etc.

...
    I just did a cursory web search and couldn't find
this register. 
 That site went defunct a while ago.  That's too bad.
 At least he's still got the http://www.altairmanuals.com/ site running. 
 That's not David Freibrun or Steve Gabaly, that's Steve Shepard's site.
 --Doug
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Doug Coward                
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Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center
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