Mail Archives: opendos/2000/11/05/06:46:04
You got it. All Ed Roberts called it was The Computer. Popular Electronics
needed a name for it. So she will always be famous in the chronology of PCs.
Pat
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert W Moss" <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Trivia
> 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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