On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Doug Salot wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > MITS built them with a disk, didin't they? I can't imagine how the
> > dress-panel saying "Altair Hard Disk Controller" got on these boxes. The
> > box bearing "Altair Floppy Disk Drive" on the front dress panel suggests the
> > MITS people didn't feel the system was complete without one. I got these
> > boxes in '81 or so, as they were liquidated from a MITS inventory auction,
> > and I got a load of transformers as well.
>
> FWIW, I think all of the Altair disk subsystems were spawned after Percom
> bought MITS. IIRC, ICOM made a third-party disk subsystem for the Altair,
> and then Percom ended up buying ICOM around the same time they bought
> MITS.
s/Percom/Pertec
(call me a smart-ass ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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