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  • Founded: Nov 4, 1998
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2296 Steve Piette
stevepiette2000 Send Email
Aug 1, 2010
11:08 pm
... I received a good TURMON EPROM from Steve Shepard and after what seems like a thousand years my Attache is now working again. There were multiple problems,...
2297 mfeberhard Send Email Aug 26, 2010
6:59 am
Greetings Altair fans... I just stumbled on this Yahoo group as I was poking around the web looking for any documentation for this inverter board (I won it on...
2298 steve
alltare Send Email
Aug 26, 2010
7:24 am
Congratulations on your acquisition. My personal opinion would be to leave it unassembled unless/until you need to use it. Unless you plan to run your Altair...
2299 mfeberhard Send Email Aug 26, 2010
2:13 pm
Yes, the seller found the parts for the board after I bought the bare board. Still wrapped and sealed as they were from MITS. Sweet. I think you are right -...
2300 mfeberhard Send Email Aug 26, 2010
2:22 pm
Sheesh. Old age is setting in. The seller found the parts not to the inverter board, but rather to the other board I bought from him - the Process Control...
2301 W Tom
wtsnet Send Email
Aug 26, 2010
3:59 pm
I've updated the files on the Burcon CP/M boot disk, if anyone is interested in testing. http://tom12.tech.officelive.com/BurconCPM.aspx ...
2302 steve
alltare Send Email
Aug 27, 2010
3:48 am
OK- that makes sense. To my knowledge, the Sherwood inverter was never offered as a kit, so it's not surprising that the seller didn't have kitted parts for...
2303 geistmarty Send Email Aug 30, 2010
10:26 pm
Hi All; I have for sale one Grant kit Altair 8800 Replica for $1499.00 and One Assembled Grant Kit also for Sale... (I need the money) I am Sorry If this is...
2304 steve
alltare Send Email
Sep 1, 2010
12:17 am
Hey Marty, What boards are installed in the assembled unit? Maybe you could post a few pictures, too. Would you consider giving us a review of the kits when...
2305 geistmarty Send Email Sep 1, 2010
1:19 am
Hi Steve; The Pictures of the Machine are in the Pictures files section, But I can take more if you like.... I have one 88-2SIO for sale, and I think an 88-SIO...
2306 geistmarty Send Email Sep 1, 2010
1:25 am
Hi All; I Would Rather Sell to the Group, than to Ebay.... As here the Machines would go to a Good Home.... THANK YOU Marty...
2307 mfeberhard Send Email Sep 1, 2010
3:48 am
Hi Marty, What paper tapes do you have? How about a list, and what you'd sell them for? Also, are the boards you mention also Grant replicas, or are they...
2308 geistmarty Send Email Sep 1, 2010
2:34 pm
... Hi All; The 88-2SIO is a Grant Replica, the 88-SIO is an origional.. On the Paper Tapes, I have 4K, 8K 12K(Extended) and Disk Basic, Assember, Monitor,...
2309 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
1:12 am
Hi All; The TWO Grant Kits that were for Sale, Have been Sold.. THANK YOU !!!! I still have a Kit that has been Assembled and one that is Partially Assembled...
2310 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
1:19 am
HI All; I would like to find out IF anyone can tell me How to Transfer files from Paper Tape or from the Altair Back to the PC and save it... I have been using...
2311 mfeberhard Send Email Sep 3, 2010
3:14 am
... Hi Marty, From your message, I gather that your Altair is pretty simple - no floppies? No CP/M? If you had CP/M up and running on the Altair AND you had a...
2312 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
3:05 pm
Hi All; I have CPM and such. But it is with my PC that I am asking .. My Tape reader is a rs-232, it is How can I Save my incoming file to my PC disk drive......
2313 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
4:36 pm
Hi All; I have tried the Copy routine, and it gives me an ""Access is Denied"" 0 file(s) copied. my guess is I have these other possibilities --- 1. Transfer...
2314 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
4:50 pm
Hi All; I have found the files I needed on another machine, so I can Punch them out !!!!!! But, I still think it would be a good idea to find out How to do...
2315 W Tom
wtsnet Send Email
Sep 3, 2010
5:45 pm
Marty, the programs added to the Burcon boot disk can transfer any file from an Altair CP/M format disk to a PC using a 3-wire serial cable or you Ethernet...
2316 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
7:44 pm
Hi All; Tom, it would still be alot of extra work... I would have to get the Burcon disk up, clear up enough space on it , read the tape into memory, put it on...
2317 Derek J. Lassen
xl198cv56 Send Email
Sep 3, 2010
8:03 pm
Its simple. In DOS, enter a command like COPY COM1,<filename&gt; -B Something rattling in the back of my mind says the COM1 needs a colon after it (eg COM1:). the...
2318 W Tom
wtsnet Send Email
Sep 3, 2010
8:21 pm
Are the tapes binary data with the possibility of a CTRL-Z in the middle of a file? W Tom S...
2319 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
10:20 pm
HI All; I can try that and see what happens.... Do I need to set the Baud rate and such, How do I do that ????? The end of tape, I just turn the reader...
2320 geistmarty Send Email Sep 3, 2010
10:23 pm
HI All; NO, Control - Z, that I know of, all of the Tapes were put in in straight Hex/Binary with my trusty Hex Editor.. as I had to create these all by hand...
2321 Derek J. Lassen
xl198cv56 Send Email
Sep 4, 2010
12:17 am
IIRC There was a command called MODE....
2322 geistmarty Send Email Sep 4, 2010
2:37 pm
Hi All; What is an IIRC ??? Some kind of Remote Control toy ... I know what mode is, so thanks THANK YOU Marty...
2323 Steve Piette
stevepiette2000 Send Email
Sep 4, 2010
3:16 pm
... IIRC = If I Recall Correctly or If I Remember Correctly. Are these paper tapes in one of the MITS loader formats or Intel Hex format? Steve...
2324 geistmarty Send Email Sep 4, 2010
3:54 pm
Hi All; Steve, they are just plain Binary, no particular format, Just serially load into the Altair from a PC, Set your loader for the start of where you want...
2325 geistmarty Send Email Sep 4, 2010
11:26 pm
Hi Steve; There are some that I have that are Mits format i.e. Cassette or Tape copies from the internet, these are mostly the Basics and tools from Mits, that...
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