Forgive me for not knowing tech info. My beloved late husband was the computer guru, not me. I guess this is more of a fishing expedition than anything at...
The easy answer is that what you have has value. I sincerely doubt that the Smithsonian or any of the other computer-specific museums want or need another...
Hi, Your late husbands collection has alot of value. If your familiar with eBay, you can view the past history on this item and see the value among the various...
Attached below is an edited version of messages posted at the Vintage Computer Forum, from Dianne Reuby of the Museum of Computing in the UK. You can read the...
There are at least 2 reasons the front panel lights don't work (per your description): First, you have a CPU board for an 8800A computer- the 8800bT computer...
I notice that "Stychokiller" has taken the comments I made in my previous message (below) and inserted them at the bottom of his auction (ebay item number...
... Sorry that you're getting the emails, but you are not the person that I was referring to in my ebay addition. The person in question sent me an email &...
While surfing the net, I stumbled across the site of the Vacuum Tube Supercomputer Centre. It's amazing what can be accomplished with thermionic emission....
I'm testing Yahoo's rich text (beta) message editor, and I thought take the opportunity to show you some of my techno wall hangings. Sorry for the poor picture...
Dave- Sure, you're welcome to use the image. Thanks for letting me know the image came through OK. There are a few details that Yahoo fails to mention to...
Some interesting history of the HP35 calculator that you may not have seen before: http://users.easystreet.com/writer/Minck%27s_HP_35_story.html This has...
Some Yahoo groups are currently exhibiting message posting problems. Messages submittied via email seem to be getting posted OK, but if you try to compose and...
Hi - I was wondering if anyone in this group had an idea of how many more or less *working* Altair computers there are in the world today. Perhaps this is an...
I've got a working 8800 with a floppy (works most of the time) and a working 8800BT with a couple of floppies. I have another 8800 in near-working condition...
I have 5 working Altairs (that is, if I took them out of storage they SHOULD work). 8800 8800b 8800bT Attache 680b and several others that could be made to...
... I have a working 8800 original with two add-on 8 inch diskette drives and the original two-board diskette controller, two serial boards, either of which I...
Thanks for the responses. What I was really asking however is "..does anyone know how many *working* Altairs there are total, worldwide? 200? 1000? I ...
I think we all realized what you were asking but decided to answer the easier question that you didn't ask. . . ;) If I had to guess, and it would only be a...
well, as long as everyone is chiming in... i have an 8800B that was working the last time i fired it up. 56K RAM, 8K PROM board, two original hard-sectored 8"...
... That number may actually be high if you count only the ones that boot from floppies. Hard to tell for sure, but from the lack of them on eBay (except for...
Dave- It's great that you still have the Altair that you built. That's a keeper. I built an 8800b from a kit, and I still have it too. I now wonder how I...
by Dave Bursky (1980). I don't know how this one slipped past me, but I hadn't heard of the book until recently, on another forum. It usually goes for $40 or ...
steve, i think the biggest niggly little gremlin i had was the original clock circuitry. when the first load came out of the factory, the clock circuit was...
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