Just curious- Did anyone besides Dave Freeman and Hugh Redelmeier respond to "Harry McCracken"'s request for photos and comments? Did anyone receive a reply...
Yes, I responded to him directly in an effort to determine if he needed fresh photos. He did not respond. -Todd _____ From: altaircomputerclub@yahoogroups.com ...
Same here. Erik Klein www.vintage-computer.com <http://www.vintage-computer.com/> www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum The Vintage Computer Forum ... From:...
Dave, Andy, Eric, Todd, ... Thanks, guys. That's what I suspected. This is deja vu all over again. Several years ago, he did the same thing (message #152)....
sounds alot like "VIP" syndrome. he's important enough so that you think you should answer his query, but far too important to acknowledge your existence....
Or maybe it's just PC World's corporate attitude. Here's another example: A long time ago, before these latest two incidents, PCW did another article about...
... I sent him pictrures of my 8800 and a bunch of detailed remembrances of my experiences on oldder computing equipment. He sent a nice reply, although I...
i am trying to load paper tape basic on the altair 32 emulator with no luck. i am following the instructions word for word but no success. any suggestions? ...
Awesome news, Bill! You're going to have a lot of fun with these machines! Did they come with any peripherals? Tape/disk drives, software, etc? You'll share...
Does anyone still have the article printed right after the jan 6, 1975 issue of popular electronics? the one were it introduced you to do programming in...
... But wait Bill - there's more! - I have a machine I picked up for you last month - the label on the front says it's a Malvern 3600 E Type Particle Sizer...
Anyone have (or know of, or even just interested in) CPM in a non- floppy implementation? I've spent a little time working on a Pseudo- CPM that mimicks most...
... I'm not sure whether it would be useful or not. Most of CP/M's services were disk service: file I/O. Console and printer I/O didn't seem too much of a big...
I have designed a card with 56k SRAM, 512k Flash, and 32k EEPROM. The EEPROM is not required since its so expensive. The card also has a spot for the Packet...
... Quite a card. I'd like that in my machine. ... I don't know about the Packet Whacker, but sounds useful. ... That sounds like a suitable platform for...
My Altair has never had a disk drive. It has a Cromemco Bytesaver (a board of 8K of EPROM) and on that Bytesaver I burned a monitor that I wrote. In a sense,...
... The blocks are 256 bytes. The Altair can read and write to the flash. If you don't write all 256 bytes to a block, the unwritten bytes in the block get...
If you are talking about the February, 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, then you can find what you want in this URL: http://home.gwi.net/~jdebell/pe/1975/...
... Unless I'm missing something, this sounds like very good hardware for CP/M. CP/M gives you the ability to run a tremendous library of programs. Why would...
... flash. If ... the block ... for ... to ... disk ... were ... on CF, ... units are ... that I'm ... packaged ... flash ... yourself (as ... at the ... have...
Hello everyone, I never got the chance to use an Altair, but... I found an 8800bt in a dumpster about 15 years ago. It has been sitting in a box, packed in...
It looks like the article was written and published. Here's a link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,126692-page,1-c,systems/article.html# The Altair 8800...
Wow, what a skewed survey that was. Just look at the 11 computers that were deemed "greater": 1- 1977 Apple II 2- 1986 Compaq Deskpro 386 3- 1981 Xerox...
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