On Thursday, August 03, 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > I don't qualify as a geezer, but I do remember what you're talking > about. I think you'd be referring most likely to the MITS Altair. I > think it was 4K of memory, or maybe you could deck it out with 16K. As > far as cost, I don't recall -- I want to say about $800, but can't recall > for sure. > > MITS was located in Albuquerque, NM. IIRC, writing an OS for the Altair was one of Microsoft's first major contracts. I believe they even worked on site in Albuquerque for awhile. John -- dusk at ravendusk.org http://www.gnome.org jsheets at codeweavers.com http://www.worldforge.org http://advogato.org/person/jsheets --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org