That is the one. It was down by where the USS Constitution was docked years ago if I remember right.
I think the Altair was named that because that is where the Star Trek TV series was going the night Ed Roberts and a friend were discussing it at Ed's kitchen table. His daughter brought that forward as a suggestion during a commercial :) ><> ... Jack On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Federico Lucifredi <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Jack Coats wrote: > > [Altair] >> I had it until I got rid of it after getting married several years >> later and wife got me to 'dump my junk I don't use'. Still wish I had >> it. I did notice the one in the Computer Museum in Boston has a >> higher serial number than mine did. > > Nice. I think these were shipped west tho... the Computer Museum collection > from Digital was shipped to the Silicon valley museum a few years back. Or > do we have a new computer museum in town, and I am sadly unaware? > > Funny how today 'Altair' is most likely to refer to a character in a > videogame... :) Hadn't noticed the overlap until now. > > Best -F > > _________________________________________ > -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish > (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
