>Got that beat 1200 baud IBM modem about as big as a toaster hooked up to
>an Altair PC Kit. All kinds of nice lites and switches on the front. Not
>dip switchs but toggle switches. Any body remember this thing. I picked
>it up at an auction. for $200 only because I knew what it was. Before the
>Apple.....Before...well before anything that would fit on a desk, and it
>was basically useless out of the box.
Yeah, know it well. My first computer was an IMSAI (Altair clone). Had
it hooked up to a military-style teletype and paper tape reader, but had
to load bootstrap by hand byte by byte with the toggles before it would
recognize the paper tape. After bootstrap we had wild Bill's original
MS BASIC on paper tape. Those were the days, 3500 bytes for BASIC, and
thrilled to get that. Perfect for "Hunt the Wumpus" <g>