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Re: Apple 1

FredEE wrote:
>
> The Altair predated the IMSAI 8080.  The IMSAI appeared (I'd say) at
> least a year later and certainly is sexier (pardon the expression).
> You saw the IMSAI in the movie "War Games".

Actually, the inability of MITS to deliver enough Altairs when pressed
to take a large order led directly to the development of the Imsai. The
whole story is pretty much laid out in "Once Upon A Time In Computerland"

> 
> I wonder what a working IMSAI 8080 would fetch (as in dollars, not
> instructions).  (I've got one.)

About the same as an Altair.