Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/04/11:33:44
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I want to tell you what Robert W Moss <opendos AT delorie DOT com> said
about "Re: Early gaming [was: FDISK]" on 4 Nov 2000, at 3:23
> Sorry Bob, Check Pats answer.
Didn't think I was anywhere close to the right answer (WAG=Wild *ss
Guess)
> We were talking about the MITS Altair 8800, I8080 based
> microcomputer. It was sold in kit form, (a case, some led's, some
> resistors, some switches, some chips, some boards and a schematic).
Yup, same box I was talking about. A friend had ordered the kit
parts from MITS, and could run things like Kill The Bit only by
keying in the code on the switches. And, since the LEDs were the
only output device (aside from a radio), Kill The Bit was one of a
very few number of applications that were useful.
His box had 256 bytes of memory (not a typo, it's not Kbytes or
Mbytes, but "bytes"). One day he travelled across the border to buy
some upgrades. On the way over he declared "one computer", bought
about a thousand dollars worth of memory (so now the box had 4
Kbytes, I think), and on the way back he declared "one computer".
Life was good before computers hit the mainstream and customs figured
out about stuff like that...
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