MITS, wasEbay & Ethicacy ponderings

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Thu Aug 20 00:29:31 1998

On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, dave dameron wrote:

> >ObCC: Supposedly, MITS came out with a hobbyist machine a couple of years
> >before the Altair called the MITS 816. I haven't found much info about
> >it. Is it real?
> >
> Have you found any more? I looked for MITS ads in Popular Electronics
> from about 1971 to 1974. They had many calculators, sometimes the last 2 digits
> in the model number = calsulator digits. I think the nmost digits I saw was
> 14, though. Also clocks, etc.

I found a few web references evenly split between a computer and a
calculator, but nothing with any detail. I suspect it was a calc. In
fact, I think that the MITS association with Popular Electronics started
with a "build your own calculator" article.

-- Doug
Received on Thu Aug 20 1998 - 00:29:31 BST