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Article #621693Re: IMSAI 8080 and War Games
From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:24
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 21:24
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hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: >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. $3,000-$4,000 in 1977 dollars, you mean. http://www.lurndal.org/images/altair_pricelist_pg1.jpg http://www.lurndal.org/images/altair_pricelist_pg2.jpg
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