Re: IMSAI 8080 and War Games

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 00:49

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 17:25:25 -0500, Charles Richmond
<nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:

>On 3/30/2018 3:48 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
>>
> >        [snip...]           [snip...]            [snip...]
> >
>> But I never had an Altair or IMSAI. Only learned about their existence a
>> few years ago when diving into the history on vintage (home)
>> computers. Must have been an exciting time I totally missed. For once I
>> was way too you and also lived in the "wrong country". Suppose you had to
>> live in the US to even become aware of them back in the day.
>> 
>
>"Back in the day" is I do *not* know when.   If "back in the day" is the 
>early 1980's, check out these links:
>
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:German_computer_magazines
>
>https://www.pinterest.com/pin/121597258659009359/

Altair was mid '70s.  It was the first attempt at a personal computer
that (a) was actually affordable, (b) was actually potentially useful,
and (c) got any press attention.  Just about everybody with an
interest in computers knew about it.

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