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I just noticed this maybe old news, Todd Fischer is putting his IMSAI up for sale: http://www.itworld.com/security/362522/buy-matthew-broderick-s-old-movie-computer-possibly-impress-ally-sheedy www.imsai.net seems to be down at the moment for some reason.

I was visiting a local company yesterday, and noticed a machine using 8 inch floppies:eek: So I took a crappy picture with my cell phone: It's a FETTEST 9300B, for testing semiconductors. Usually, as in this case, it is connected to a wafer prober. The disk sleeve says Radio Shack...

Interesting article in IEEE Spectrum: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/did-bill-gates-steal-the-heart-of-dos/1 Written by a vintage computer collector, maybe a member here? The article is something of an ad for his forensic tools. He tries to determine if DOS was copied from CP/M...

I noticed that the MITs Altair documentation and some of the ads use the word buss instead of bus. Did any other manufacturers use buss? Or was this just the occasional odd spelling or maybe misuse of the word? Then there's disk and disc...

An Arduino based KENBAK-1 replica has been popping up on the tech blogs: http://www.funnypolynomial.com/software/arduino/kenbak.html

I thought some folks here might be interested in a hobby project I worked on and wrote up here: http://mini-altair.tripod.com/ (Sorry for the ads.) It's an 8085 single board computer intended to be compatible with the original Altair software. It runs all the Altair BASICs: 4K, 8K, 12K...