Re: Posting questions on Woz's website...

[steve@dosius.zzn.com (Dosius)]

blackm00@cam.org (Michael Black) wrote in message news:<6447bcd3.0210161132.31f76f7@posting.google.com>...
> Well MITS survived long enough to be bought out by another company,
> was it Pertec?  I don't know what year, but it was late enough that
> I remember thinking they weren't going to gain much from buying
> the company, because the focus by that time was on the all in one
> type systems.

I suspect you are confusing the Altair and the IMSAI; the IMSAI was an Altair clone.

> 
> MITS wasn't the only one that offered an assembled version of a kit,
> though since there wasn't much before the Altair 8800, and it pretty
> much broke the floodgate, I doubt there was an earlier example.
> 
> As others have mentioned 1977 was the year of the pre-builts;
> Heathkit (I think you could get them pre-assembled but besides
> they were a name known outside of hobby computer circles), Commodore,
> the Apple II, the original TRS-80 and I suspect I'm missing some.
> I think the issue wasn't that they were pre-assembled, but they
> were in some way aimed at a market for people who didn't want
> to know about what was inside, they simply wanted to use a computer.

:)

<thinks about making a comment about the "Terse-80" LOL>