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...
it's the right company, but the wrong box. it looks like an early model compared to the one i've got sitting here. one of these days i'll dig the box out and...
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 ...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
Here's one approach to the floppy problem - http://www.rothfus.com/SVD/ - works great with H8 and TRS-80s; Eric's an almost-Altair owner and eager to get going...
Mind you I don't know a thing about FPGA's, but would it be possible to take some of the 'circuitry' of the altair (let's just say the 8800 model) and recreate...
Hi - I am a lurker in this group, but I like to say hi every once in a while. I have been reading about the floppy drive posts and I thought I'd ask... What...
i once had an alignment disk for the altair 8-inch drives. the markings were as follows: Dysan 500, P/N 800560 Pertec CE Alignment Diskette Pertec P/N...
I am currently working on a project that I call "Altair 65C02". It is Xilinx FPGA based and contains a freely available 6502 processor core. In addition the...
Well, I have the 680(b) all disassembled now. I noticed a few things while I was taking this apart. My brother was trying some modifications that I didn't know...
Hi, While I was working on my 680, I thought of something to do with the front panel. Seeing how the LED's on here were 30yrs old, (I can still remember...
Hi, I was wondering if anyone might know where I can get the logo artwork reproduced for the front on my Altair 680. This was an original computer my late...
Hi, I'm new to this list, but some of you might know me from classiccmp.org and from the Computer Collector Newsletter. I'd like to find out more about the...
It pretty much has the story of the PC around Microsoft memoribillia. It is small but very nice. The earlyPC's are there including Altair. Most of the early...
Anyone know the back-story on the Altair at the Microsoft Museum in Redmond? Is it just a random Altair 8800? [Non-text portions of this message have been...
I may have mentioned to some of you that I had found a guy with some ASR33's and was buying a few. This was a referral from a fellow club member on the list...
I'm restoring some 88-DCDD and 3202 drive cabinets. The plastic doors and bezels of several drives are damaged. Does anyone have spare FD4XX or FD5XX drives...
... *********************** I've been wondering - do Jerry's repros have an embossed MITS logo like the originals? They certainly look good in his auctions. ...
