Altair 8800 name Was: Re: Altair 680 Expansion Boards?

[Sam O'nella]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 5:54 PM, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote:

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> On 12/17/2016 1:23 PM, Stephen Pereira wrote:
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>> I was (finally) lucky enough to acquire an Altair 680 back in November...
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> Is there any logic to the naming of these Altairs?   Wonder why it wasn't
> "Altair 8080" and "Altair 6800".   8800 and 680 don't follow the same
> pattern.
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> Had MITS made other Altairs...
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> Altair 8800 = 8080
>        8850 = 8085
>        8860 = 8086
>        8880 = 8088
>        8286 = 80286
>        8386 = 80386
>        680  = 6800
>        680  = 6809
>        680  = 68000
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> ;-),
>
> - JS
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lol, I would love to hear that too if anyone knows any stories behind the
naming. Used to hurt my head to remember that it was an 8800 not an 8080.
I know the fairly well published story about the name Altair but companies
and their model numbers are always odd.