Re: University credentials used by third parties

[David Lundy <dlundy () PACIFIC EDU>]

 True - the Altair ran CP/M, but the Popular Electronics article about
the Altair was the inspiration for Gates to drop out of school and sell
MITS on BASIC vaporware which he and Paul Allen eventually produced.  I
recollection is that BASIC sold for $500 and was distributed on paper
tape.  The Altair made a much bigger splash than the earlier
Radio-Electronics article on a 8008 kit.  The 8008 architecture
suggested the future but the stack limit of 8 nested function calls
hobbled the chip. 

Dave

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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] University credentials used by third parties

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:31:17PM -0700, David Lundy wrote:
> I do!! I do!!  Remember the Altair and Imsai computers and other
> S-100 bus computers 

Yeah... Those days there were a LOT of different architectures,
machine languages, etc.

> the computers that inspired Bill Gates to launch Microsoft? 

Nah... CP/M.... an OS which ran on 8080/Z80 processors.  MS-Dos
version 1 was pretty much a copy of CP/M...

But those kind of machines were pretty much after the front
pannel switches...  PDP-8 was my speciality.... 12 bit words.


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