First Computer Store

[Ian S. King]

Oops, misremembered: Altair 680.

On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Ian S. King <isking at uw.edu> wrote:

> I don't remember the exact date, but I was in high school which places it
> in the mid-1970s: there was a storefront called "The Retail Computer Store"
> that sold Altairs, IMSAIs, Chromemco and SWTPC.  I really wanted the little
> SWTP 680 - now, of course, they're sky high if you can find one.
> Interestingly, my first programming job was just a few years later,
> programming the 6800 in assembly for what we'd now call embedded systems.
>  -- Ian
>
> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 10:38 AM, <COURYHOUSE at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I  find  USB useful and  with USB 3  pretty  darn  quick!
>> only downside it  does not like to  run 45.5 baud  to run  our  60 wpm UPI
>> Teletype machine
>> in the Journalism Display.  Hey  anyone  have  a  AP  Teletype  we need
>> one
>>  in  AP  dress too!
>>
>> Ed#  _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 7/26/2015 6:14:58 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
>> ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:
>>
>> >
>> > Remember when USB was referred to as the Useless Serial Bus after it
>> was
>> introduced? I think it was a solid 1-2
>> > years after it was  introduced that I began to notice peripherals
>> designed for it.
>>
>> I still  call it 'Useless Serial Botch' most of the time. It's not a bus,
>> after  all.
>>
>> -tony
>> =
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
> The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
>
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>
> University of Washington
>
> There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
>



-- 
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>

Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>

University of Washington

There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."