Altair 8800a on EBAY

From: Absurdly Obtuse <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Oct 3 17:56:07 2001

Depending on the exact time frame, it could be the DEC VAX 11/730 that was
the machine everyone was drooling over. Or the IBM S/38.

Peace... Sridhar

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Mike Ford wrote:

> >Richard Erlacher said:
> >> The Altair was never a computer that one interested in computing
> >> would have bought for what the kit cost....
> >
> >So what Was the serious computer to buy for that era?
> >It would probably be impossibly expensive, leaving many,
> >including the serious, without anything.
> >
> >John A.
>
> DEC something?
> Tandy 10?
> Basic4?
>
> Rotten core, I can't remember the one I really want to, Micron 100, maybe
> something with an A or T at the start, but it was a whole chassis with
> smoked glass doors etc., not some hobby machine.
>
>
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