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Article #621691Re: IMSAI 8080 and War Games
From: hanc...
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:49
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 20:49
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On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 8:49:09 PM UTC-4, J. Clarke wrote: > 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. Would you know what kind of applications people ran on it? The following article is very interesting, but does not talk about applications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 It appears that to do anything beyond hobbyist work, a person needed to purchase additional memory, interface boards, and a Teletype to provide I/O (entering programs by switches was very tedious). It would seem the price of a 'complete' system would be about $3,000-4,000 in today's dollars, about two year's worth of time-sharing service.
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