Notebook of Documents on the MITS Altair Microcomputer
date: label: date made
content: 1976
name: label: maker
content: Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems
notes: label: Description
content: This white three-ring binder is marked on the cover: ALTAIR (/) DOCUMENTATION. Documents in the notebook include:
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content: 1. A color pamphlet entitled "Altair Technical Notebook." The back has the image "Just Imagine - If Ben franklin [sic] (/) had owned an Altair (/) (You could own an Altair.)
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content: 2. A one-page sheet listing eleven Altair dealers across the U.S. It is entitled, "off the shelf".
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content: 3. A one-page sheet entitled "ALTAIR Price List". It is dated April 1, 1976, and has printing on two sides.
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content: 4. a drawing entitled: MITS ALTAIR 8800 (/) cpu diagram. It is dated 8-7-76.
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content: 5. a blank order form for MITS.
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content: 6. A letter from Pam Holloma, Marketing Manager at MITS, dated April, 1976, indicating that she is including additional advertising material that should have been sent with the $5 Notebook.
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content: 7. one sheet ot ALTAIR TECHNICAL NOTEBOOK ERRATA
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content: 8. the 93-page "altair notebook". The owner noted on the cover three pages which refer to books on microcomputers.
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content: There is a similar three-ring binder with museum number 1990.0653.07. However, it concerns the Altair 680 and the Altair 680b.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Mexico, Albuquerque
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: John Gallaher
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.3089.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.3089.01
label: nonaccession number
content: 1994.3089
objectType: label: Object Name
content: documentation
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal. (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic. paper. (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 29.3 cm x 26.2 cm x 3.3 cm; 11 17/32 in x 10 5/16 in x 1 5/16 in