>Also, who owns the rights to the Altair 8800 now? Percom? ICOM? Ed
>Roberts? WHat happened after all the buyouts and bakruptcies?
Which rights? The name? The design? The PC board layouts? The
documentation?
I would think the only things left to worry about are the name and
any copyrights that might exist on the PC artwork. I doubt the
actual design is protected at all - it's almost exactly what you'd get
if you just took one of the Intel 8080A databooks and copied the CPU
implementation. Why would anybody want to
make an exact clone of the original design anyway? A couple
months after the introduction of the Altair there were hundreds
of garage-based businesses selling much better designed S-100
CPU's and peripherals!
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Received on Wed Sep 02 1998 - 13:36:58 BST
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