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Ed Roberts may not be a household name (like Bill Gates or Microsoft), but the Altair is certainly well-known. It was also preceded by some notable and influen
by musicale 3y ago
Ed Roberts may not be a household name (like Bill Gates or Microsoft), but the Altair is certainly well-known.
It was also preceded by some notable and influential machines such as the Xerox Alto. CP/M was developed for an intel machine which also preceded the Altair.
- zabzonk 3y agore cp/m, what machine was that?
- st_goliath 3y agoIt took me roughly 5 seconds to go to Wikipedia, type "CP/M" into the search bar, scroll down to "History", where I found a link to an article about the Intel Intellec: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellec https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellec The second sentence in that article says: > The Intellec computers were among the first microcomputers ever sold, predating the Altair 8800 by at least two years.
- zabzonk 3y agowell done - your google search skills certainly exceed mine
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- markhahn 3y agointeresting, and indeed I'd never heard of them. of course, there's also the IMSAI. I personally lusted after the Sol (real wood sides!) Intellec seems to have been missing from the hobbyist headspace, though, which was critical for that early phase of the industry - not to mention that kits were huge in those days. Adults with a couple grand (real money in those days) to blow on a mostly-impractical but cool toy...
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