Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/04/08:56:32
Good you got it. When I read about it, I thought it was quite funny. Since
Intel got most of the research and developement free, they probably just had
to decide on a price for it!<grin>
Here is another one.
Who was the person that named the Altair and why?
Where did this person get the idea from?
I love these crazy trivia questions, because in the beginning of the world
of microcomputers it was crazy and I was a part of it.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert W Moss" <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: Trivia
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 14:00:00 -0700 "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
> writes:
> Pat you got the right info on the Altair.
>
> I had to do a little surfing to catch up with the I8008 info but I
> finally found
> this in a on-line History of Computers site.
>
> The people at Intel made the price of the I8008 a joke, an in-house joke
> about
> the IBM 360 mainframe computer. They priced it at $360.
>
> BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Chocolate is a vitamin"
>
> > More trivia,
> >
> > What was the initial price for the 8008 chips?
> >
> > BONUS points:
> >
> > What was the meaning of the price?
> >
> >
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