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NPaladin
December 11th, 2000, 03:36 AM
Just wondering, but does or did anyone own an Altair or an IMSAI computer? I've always wanted to crack one open and take it for a spin.....

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AlienDyne
December 11th, 2000, 03:44 AM
I'd love to take an Altair for a spin too, but I was just a baby when it was first released!

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[This message has been edited by AlienDyne (edited December 11, 2000).]
NPaladin
December 11th, 2000, 03:51 AM
Originally posted by AlienDyne:
I'd love to take an Altair for a spin too, but I was just a baby when it was first released!


Hey, I wa barely born at the time! (1975) I'd still like to mess with one.

*visions of putting a GeForce2 Ultra on an S100 bus.... http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/wink.gif*


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LORE
December 11th, 2000, 09:23 AM
I'm only 23, I have never seen one, I have an old 2600 atari thought???!!! http://forums.windrivers.com/cgi-bin/forum/biggrin.gif


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AlienDyne
December 11th, 2000, 09:42 AM
Originally posted by LORE:
I'm only 23, I have never seen one..


Well, this is it:
http://www.geocities.com/alienhardware/Altair8800TCM.gif

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furlong47
December 11th, 2000, 12:05 PM
Heres an IMSAI 8080, with lots of pics of the innards: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/imsai.html


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LORE
December 13th, 2000, 01:22 PM
Originally posted by AlienDyne:
Well, this is it:
http://www.geocities.com/alienhardware/Altair8800TCM.gif



I guess that clears that up. Thanks for the pic