[HH] Arduino board programmed with an audio file

[Jack Coats]

That is the one.  It was down by where the USS Constitution was docked
years ago if I remember right.

I think the Altair was named that because that is where the Star Trek
TV series was going the night
Ed Roberts and a friend were discussing it at Ed's kitchen table.  His
daughter brought that forward
as a suggestion during a commercial :)

><> ... Jack


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi at acm.org> wrote:
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> On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:40 AM, Jack Coats wrote:
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> [Altair]
>> I had it until I got rid of it after getting married several years
>> later and wife got me to 'dump my junk I don't use'.  Still wish I had
>> it.  I did notice the one in the Computer Museum in Boston has a
>> higher serial number than mine did.
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> Nice. I think these were shipped west tho... the Computer Museum collection from Digital was shipped to the Silicon valley museum a few years back.  Or do we have a new computer museum in town, and I am sadly unaware?
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> Funny how today 'Altair' is most likely to refer to a character in a videogame... :) Hadn't noticed the overlap until now.
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>  Best -F
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