E-Over Pay strikes again! original Altair disk sells for

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Thu Feb 11 18:43:47 1999

<Not true!
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<Altair Mini-Disk BASIC was distributed on 5 1/4" hard-sectored disks with 1
<sectors (not 10). The MITS controller consisted of two S-100 cards that wa
<mostly TTL (nothing fancy like a 1771

No. The original disk for the altair before they became Pertec Computers
was an 8" system using two boards of TTL. I know I built three of them in
that era and debugged a few more. All if the later Pertec machines with
minifloppies had a board that used a 1771 plus a raft of ttl.

I might add the Pertec controller was sold before the Pertec aquired MITS.


Allison
Received on Thu Feb 11 1999 - 18:43:47 GMT

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