Good Morning All: Mine was with the Popular Electronics article 'Build The Cosmac Elf' in 1976 Popular Electronics. See http://www.retrothing.com/2008/05/the-original-co.html It had 256 bytes of RAM and a video out for large scale graphics and was based on the RCA 1802 processor. I wrote a program to blink the LED to my call letters of my amateur radio license in Morse Code. Later I replaced the LED with a relay and could send my call (WA2SST) every time I hit the start switch over the air. That was the start for me. Soon after I purchased an Ohio Scientific Challenger C24P with 8K MS BASIC ROM and 4K of RAM. That was based on the 6502 processor. I wrote lots of forestry and surveying software with it saved to cassette with a 110 baud Kansas City interface... I think Altair was a planet mentioned in the original Star Trek... The best of the Holiday Season to all! Regards,
Jack Skelley ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Malcolm Greene [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 10:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] Happy 34th Birthday to the Altair 8800 Ken, That issue of Popular Mechanics launched my passion with computers as well. I was just a kid in high school and couldn't afford the Altair. I saved up and purchased a system from MOS Technologies, a 6502 with 1K RAM, a hex keypad, a hex display, and an interface to backup your programs to a cassette recorder. The 6502 seemed about 100x easier to program than the 8800. A great system. A year or two later I purchased one of the first Commodore Pets ... 8K with a built-in cassette recorder, a crisp 40x25 display, and a very decent version of Basic. Great memories! Malcolm [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/0b957900b2b8194d998a441195b660383804c8d...@drdsrv03.drdad.thenewarkarena.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
