Portable Altair

[steve]

http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/vac_attache.asp

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> Hi folks,
> 
> I posted this message tonight to a couple of Altair
> sites, but might as well
> ask on the big list too: does anyone know about the
> existence of a portable
> Altair, which was designed as the "Altair 2"...? 
> According to Steven Levy's
> book "Hackers" (p. 257), by mid-1976, Ed Roberts
> "had been designing an
> exciting new Altair 2 computer -- a high-powered,
> compact machine which
> could fit inside a briefcase" before selling the
> company to Pertec.
> 
> I'm more interested in the computer's size / form
> factor than its technical
> abilities, since I mostly study the history of
> portable systems.
> 
>  - Evan
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Evan Koblentz's personal homepage:
> http://www.snarc.net
> Also see:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/
> Where did PDAs come from?
> http://www.snarc.net/pda/pda-treatise.htm
> 
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