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... Altair ? " she asked ; that , it seemed , was the star be- ing visited by the spaceship Enterprise in the evening's epi- sode . Solomon liked the idea , and called Roberts . Roberts agreed . Like George Eastman's first Kodak , the MITS ...
... Altair ? " she asked ; that , it seemed , was the star be- ing visited by the spaceship Enterprise in the evening's epi- sode . Solomon liked the idea , and called Roberts . Roberts agreed . Like George Eastman's first Kodak , the MITS ...
Page 52
... Altair and the computers that preceded it is hard to exaggerate . Even the minicomputers of the day were bulky machines costing several thousand dollars to buy and install . The Altair was about the size of an ordinary hi - fi amplifier ...
... Altair and the computers that preceded it is hard to exaggerate . Even the minicomputers of the day were bulky machines costing several thousand dollars to buy and install . The Altair was about the size of an ordinary hi - fi amplifier ...
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... Altair , the first computer small enough and cheap enough to be used by one person . He bought a copy , and promptly ... Altair , but they did have access to Digital Equipment computers that could be pro- grammed to behave like an Altair ...
... Altair , the first computer small enough and cheap enough to be used by one person . He bought a copy , and promptly ... Altair , but they did have access to Digital Equipment computers that could be pro- grammed to behave like an Altair ...
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