A belated epitaph for the man who really started it all

[joeekaitis]

<center>Ed Roberts

1941-2010</center>

 

[neptunebob]

Wasn't the Altair computer the one that Matthew Broderick used in the movie "Wargames"?

 

[tolivac]

When I first worked at this transmitter site-they used an "Altair" computer as a "datalogger"kept a log on what transmitters were up at a given time-was backed up by a typed paper log on a typewriter.The control room guy ran the Altair.An if it lost its program-was reloaded from a reel of tape--from an Ampex 300 recorder.Sometimes you had to play the tape 2 or three times before the Altair would work.Now a PC type computer does the datalogging and no more typeriter log or Altair.Was surplused years ago..