Frank Barberis

APE - To mimic: The Altair Peripheral Emulator
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Frank Barberis has been involved with computers since 1974, the same year that the Altair and the Intel 8080 chip created the first “personal” computers.  He currently works as a software designer for a firm in Portland, Oregon.

The APE project began after seeing the amazing Altair 8800 reproduction kit created by Grant Stockly (www.altairkit.com) and the realization that when the
eight inch floppy drives on his Altair fail there will be no spare parts!


Company history - or rather a partial history of computers owned or used. 
 
HP 2000F with time shared BASIC and an ASR-33 Teletype  - OK, so I never became a chemical engineer!
 
DEC System 10 - Many nice computer languages, but not free.
 
Altair 8800 A - CP/M, MS-BASIC, UCSD-PASCAL, DR-PL/I-80.
Altair 8800 B
 
Atari 800 - Atair BASIC, Assembler, and Logo.  (And many games of course!)
Atari 800 XL
 
286 PC - MS-BASIC, MASM-86, and MS-C.
(Better games.)
 
386SX PC
 
486 PC
Pentium PC
 
Pentium II PC
(Still better games.)
 
Pentium III PC
(Amazing games.)
 
Pentium 4 PC - MS .NET VB and C#.
Pentium Dual Core PC
(The undicovered country! - Sorry.)
Customer testimonials
 
“I just thought I’d let you know that the system works great!”
 
Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
wwaltair32.com