OT Don't read this (was Re: Altair MBL source)

[woodelf]

Scott Stevens wrote:

>>If things had worked out differently we might be using
>>ultraminiature electron tubes. Imagine! An entire flipflop in one
>>package!
>>
They have them already --- look at  Dekatron decade counters.
Also a nice example of them in action. 
http://anita-calculators.info/html/mk_8.html

>>I got my AT last summer at a surplus equipment auction.
>>    
>>
Wow ... they took their time to scrap it. I hope they did not want 
original price on
it like some people sell things...  What I had meant with that statement 
was that
computer growth may have happed since IBM did not see a large market for
"personal computers".