On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:
> Bewary as to some people all small airplanes are Piper Cubs! It
> may not be MITS at all or only some. Calling it an ALTAIR means
> specifically one of four possible boxes all desktop sized
> (Altair 8800, the altair 8800B, the 8800B front pannel less version
> or the Altair680).
You forgot the Altair 8800A B^}
> Interesting. MITS never made a portable or toteable. At first I'd
> suspected it was an Ontrona Attache.
Correct. MITS never did, however PERTEC did after acquiring MITS. The
"Attache" that PERTEC put out is significantly from the unit of the same
name that Ottrona built. (I have an Ottrona unit in my collection, and
used to work on the PERTEC critters...)
-jim
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