Re: Blinking lights on the Connection Machine

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From: mor... Mike Morris
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 02:23

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In article <134.UUL1.3#5131@mvac23.UUCP> mvac23!tho...@udel.edu writes:
>
...referring to the "War Games" movie...
>And I've heard that the reason that they used an MITS Altair in the
>boy's room was because current computers of that time (ie the TRS-80,
>Commodore PET, VIC-20, etc.) didn't have any lights on them.

Um, sorry but the machine was a IMSAI, not an Altair.  The IMSAI 8080
was the first "clone", as they copied the Micro Instrumentation 
Telemetry Systems "Altair".  "IMSAI" stood for (as I remember) International
Microcomputer Systems Associates Inc.

I have Altair S/n 75 (still works), I'm currently using an IMSAI to connect
to the dial-in port, and a second IMSAI is the "test bed" system in the shop.
One of my IMSAIs is s/n 170 (or so).
I can run 4 different operating systems, using 68000, 80286 and Z80
processors.  I'd just like to find a couple of hard disk controllers...

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From: mor...@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris)
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Subject: Re: Blinking lights on the Connection Machine
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