To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 02:25:01 -0800
Subject: Re: Trivia
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From: Robert W Moss <domanspc AT juno DOT com>
Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com

I use Lycos and sometimes I go to zdnet and search from there.
You should go out looking for some of the computer history sites.
This computer was before the R.E. story.
Actually it is not to well known, but in the ten years before the Altair 
there  were quite a few good kits and completed computers out there, 
although not to many of each were produced, due to costs and 
availability of parts.

BOB 'DOMAN' MOSS "Chocolate is a vitamin"

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 19:56:06 +1100 "Da Silva, Joe"
<Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com> writes:
> Thanks Bob (I guess which URL's you "dig up", depends
> on which search engine you use, etc. ;-).
> 
> I'm going to take a wild guess here - was it the computer
> kit published in Radio Electronics magazine? I know this
> was the first microcomputer design to be "published",
> but I'm not sure if it preceded the Altair ...
> 
> Joe.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Robert W Moss [SMTP:domanspc AT juno DOT com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, 7 November 2000 15:09
> > To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> > Subject:	Re: Trivia
> > 
> > Joe, 
> >  I usually just go shopping when I look up something on the net. 
> > I just typed I8008 or intell 8008 on the address line and clicked 
> on go, 
> > and let the computer do the walking.
> > I forgot what URL I got the complete info on the I8008 chip trivia 
> 
> > question, but here are a few to get you started. 
> > 
> > http://www.bobrich.lexitech.com/hist12.htm
> > http://www.realtime-info.be/encyc/techno/55/57.htm 
> > 
>
http://www.tasc.com/products/horizonmaster/html/irm/in/intel/init/html/i8
> > 008.html 
> > http://puma.dpg.devry.edu/~evo/intel.htm 
> > http://exo.com.~wts/mits0013.htm 
> > http://cs.ru.ac.za/cs2/comp1971.htm  
> > 
> > While you guys are surfing maybe you can find the answer to 
> another 
> > little trivia question.   Be careful how you answer, because it is 
> not
> > really 
> > that obvious, even though several people have posted different 
> answers. 
> > 
> > "What was the first personal computer."  
> > 
> > Remember, it must be small, inexpensive, simple, digital, 
> > automatic, programmable and accessible, i.e. to those who 
> > are not millionaires. (Hint: It was a microcomputer, and it 
> > was available before the Altair 8800 - some surfing required).  
> > 

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