Ugly Me wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James Knott" <james.kn...@rogers.com> > To: <users@openoffice.org> > Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 4:10 PM > Subject: Re: [users] Re: ver 3 is rubbish. > > > >> My first computer was an IMSAI 8080, which I built from a kit* in Nov >> 1976. Everything, memory, I/O etc., was extra. I also used cassettes >> with it, but later was able to use paper tape on my M35 ASR Teletype. >> Back in those days, there was very little software available for sale, >> so you often had to write your own. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080 >> >> *A "kit" consisted of bare boards and bags of parts that had to be >> soldered to the boards. The whole thing then had to be assembled. >> > > Isn't that how Bill Gates started out? > >
He and Paul Allen came up with a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. The IMSAI 8080 was a better quality clone of the Altair. He also used to dig source code out of the garbage for his own use and then got all upset when someone copied his BASIC interpreter. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
