I'm restoring an Altair 8800 which I received without the thin aluminum MITS ALTAIR 8800 nameplate on the bottom of the front panel. The best reproduction I...
I just found this Altair Yahoo group and thought I would say hello. In 2000 I purchased a working mint condition Altair 8800 for a little over $3000. I flew...
In the database section of this forum, I add an owners registration database for anyone who wants to list. (I hope that is OK since I am new here) Only enter...
I notice they have a photo section on this forum, so I just now took a picture of my Altair. The blonde computer in the picture is a much more modern version...
Welcome to the group. Your Altair looks pretty clean from what I can see in the photo. Does it have any peripherals other than the blonde one (printer,...
Steve, Thank you for your kind welcome to the Altair Computer Club Group. I do not have any peripherals. Additionally, I am not sure what optional/additional...
Steve, You mentioned below that MITS was going to place a Motorola 68000 into production, but closed its doors before doing so. I had previously assumed the...
... Todd The 8800B was an 'upgraded' 8800. MITS improved the powersupply, included a full chasis monterboard (instead of 4 slots then adding on 4 slots at a...
... Todd That is a really nice, clean 8800 chassis. I believe that you have a serial board (RS-232) as well as the CPU and RAM. You will need to extend the...
Ahh. Larry. That clears up years of confusion. Now I understand that the 68000 and the 6800 are not the same. Seeing both, I had assumed as a kid, the last...
Todd- Thanks for posting the pictures. I agree with Larry about your 3 boards (CPU, RAM, and Serial). The serial board is almost surely an RS-232 SI/O-A. I...
I noticed that someone is selling a 680 case and another person is selling one of George Marrow's 8800 without a cover. I would imagine that the 680 cover...
... that ... find ... upper ... 80's, ... hardware ... Your Altair is still a good tool. That is why I will be keeping several different versions running...
Your link to the Morrow 8800 is wrong and I couldn't find it in a quick search. However, the 680 case is way to small for any 8800 I recall seeing. It...
Here is the corrected link. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&item=2750882982&category=4193 The subject line reads "MITS Altair 8800 Morrow 8"...
OK, I saw that auction but I thought you were looking at a computer made by Morrow. Note that the Altair in this auction has a couple of other anomalies ...
Steve, This topless Altair sold for today for $1,975. Your assessment and observations are very helpful. -Todd ... anomalies ... (the ... motherboards ... ...
Does anyone know if "daveygf" is still around? His site says it will be back soon, but it looks like that was posted on Nov 21, 2002. According to his old...
David was the founder of this group and of the website altaircomputers.org. He's still a member/moderator of this group, but he's gone on to other interests...
Steve, If there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. I am also more than happy to host the website at my company and contiue to upgrade the...
By the same token I would be happy to host the club, the registry and any other Altair web items at www.vintage-computer.com <http://www.vintage-computer.com/>...
As I've said here before, Erik has a nice site that hosts many forums, and it's worth visiting. There's a shortcut to his site in our LINKS folder. There are...
Most of us know that an IMSAI 8080 was the star of the movie "War Games". But has anyone sighted any other first-generation microcomputers (especially S-100s)...
Steve, I would have to agree with your comments regarding a third party sponsored message board for the Altair. This Yahoo forum seems best for the reasons you...
There's an informative- but way too short- two part article about the history of MITS on the web site of the Society for Amateur Scientists (SAS). It was...
Always check your facts BEFORE submitting a message. The "TV Typewriter Cookbook" was written by Don Lancaster, not Forrest Mims. Sorry. Mr. Mims has written...
Jared has very good pictures of the many boards included with the computer, even though the descriptions aren't completely accurate. They have a terrible...
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