Woah - sorry for getting in so late on this one, but I've been at Sun training all week. Microsoft's major contracts were almost exclusively for programming languages up until the days of the IBM PC. MS didn't do any operating systems until then - and even when they did the OS thing for IBM, they did it so that they wouldn't lose their language business. o_O Nick Reinking dusk at ravendusk.org, on 08/03/2000 03:31:50 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF cc: Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20067] ancient computers On Thursday, August 03, 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote: > > I don't qualify as a geezer, but I do remember what you're talking > about. I think you'd be referring most likely to the MITS Altair. I > think it was 4K of memory, or maybe you could deck it out with 16K. As > far as cost, I don't recall -- I want to say about $800, but can't recall > for sure. > > MITS was located in Albuquerque, NM. IIRC, writing an OS for the Altair was one of Microsoft's first major contracts. I believe they even worked on site in Albuquerque for awhile. John -- dusk at ravendusk.org http://www.gnome.org jsheets at codeweavers.com http://www.worldforge.org http://advogato.org/person/jsheets --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org -------------- next part -------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org