Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/05/00:23:17
Les Solomanan an editor for Popular Electronics was looking at the
schematics for the 8800, which was all he had, since the computer
got lost in transit. The computer had not been named yet, so he
asked his daughter what would be a good name for it. She was
watching a Star Trek show on the TV and since the Enterprise was
on the way to the star Altair, she thought that would be a good name for
it.
So was born a rising star and the world would never be the same again.
BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Chocolate is a vitamin"
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 05:27:09 -0700 "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
writes:
> 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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