I've inserted my responses below. Hopefully the formatting isn't too screwy. alltare <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Erik, These questions/comments come to...
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alltare
May 6, 2003 6:58 pm
Erik, These questions/comments come to mind: How are you booting the 8800? Are you directly addressing and executing the boot PROM, using a turnkey board with...
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akessel
May 6, 2003 12:40 pm
The serial cable that is used on the BT is wired differently from the one on the 8800 - depends on the card of course. If you have a 2sio card, I have a...
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ErikSKlein
May 6, 2003 3:38 am
Hello all, I just found this group while poking away at the net. I'm glad there's a community of Altair users/collectors. . . First off, I have a Vintage...
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Mike_Gregory
Apr 26, 2003 3:20 am
All members, I need some help locating a schmatic & parts layout for subject main board. The November 75 issue of popular electronics Altair 680 construction...
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alltare
Apr 20, 2003 10:50 pm
While we're on the subject of documentation, I wonder if anyone out there has a manual and/or a schematic for MITS' audio sweep generator. I would be happy to...
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Richie
richie_zero86
Apr 20, 2003 8:14 am
... From: davidgari To: altaircomputerclub@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 3:47 PM Subject: [Altair Computer Club] Re: Schematics for Altair 8080 ...
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davidgari
Apr 18, 2003 10:47 pm
Copies of original manuals w/schematics are offered for reasonable prices by group member 'alltare' a.k.a. Steve Shepard at (where else but):...
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richie_zero86
Apr 9, 2003 5:58 am
hey i was wondering if anyone here has the schematics for the altair 8080 or any hybrid of it available or would be willing to scan them for me? i really...
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EarthMall
Mar 7, 2003 11:46 pm
Here is the new link for the Altair 8800 T-shirts: http://www.islandseven.com/altair...
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EarthMall
Mar 7, 2003 11:40 pm
I made a mistake on the link. Go to: http://www.islandseven.com/altair Thanks, James...
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EarthMall
Mar 7, 2003 8:02 pm
I've got an Altair 8800 T-shirt up on ebay if anyone is interested. Check it out at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ...
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David Gari
davidgari
Mar 6, 2003 10:59 pm
I'm not sure if this is copacetic but I'm selling my pride and joy MITS Altair 8800a on eBay at: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3404786716 ...
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alltare
Feb 7, 2003 6:57 pm
Welcome to the group. I haven't heard of any designs for using 3" drives. The Altair software and hardware was all designed around "hard-sectored" diskettes,...
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Larry Troth
larryt91311
Feb 7, 2003 12:13 am
Hello I have just joined the group and I am looking forward to gaining some new knowledge regarding the old hardware that I have. After 20+ years in storage,...
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alltare
Nov 20, 2002 10:21 pm
I've just uploaded a full-sized hi-resolution scan of the cover of the January, 75 issue of Popular Electronics. For those of you who like to hang techie...
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alltare
Aug 23, 2002 4:41 am
Let my give that URL again, without the trailing period: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/local ... this ... computer, ... old ... your...
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alltare
Aug 23, 2002 4:38 am
See Joyce's column, "Gather Ye Olde Disks and Boxes While Ye May", here: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/local. I can't believe people collect AOL discs- I...
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magentas2k
Aug 12, 2002 10:28 pm
Hiya. My name is Joyce Slaton. I write a monthly column on technology for the online version of a San Francisco daily newspaper. For this column, I'm...
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tomdavidson62
Aug 6, 2002 4:19 am
Bill Gates had promised to release the source, if he could find it.. And somehow a copy was discovered at Harvard, behind a file cabinet, but then it vanished,...
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alltare
Aug 5, 2002 6:59 pm
I don't think MITS ever released the source code (it was really owned by Micro-Soft, you'll recall). I certainly never saw it when I worked there, but I was a...
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tomdavidson62
Aug 4, 2002 3:44 am
Did anyone ever find the source for Altair BASIC? There was a bit of a flurry a few months ago, but the story seems to have died and all the websites that had...
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alltare
Mar 31, 2002 3:52 am
(with apologies to Monty Python) It seems that when Yahoo changed servers a few weeks ago, they changed everyone's personal preferences to allow maximum SPAM. ...
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alltare
Mar 19, 2002 8:24 pm
Tom's right- the Attache video boards provide a pretty crude display of only 16 lines of 64 characters. There's no addressable cursor, either (I never noticed...
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wtsnet
Mar 18, 2002 4:27 am
Hi David, Congratulations on getting an Attaché. The first computer I bought was an Attaché. A few of us at Pertec bought an Attaché from Burcom, the...
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alltare
Mar 17, 2002 11:23 pm
Maybe some of the other group members know about those Cromemco boards- I don't know much about them. It may be, as you said, that the Cromemco 8080 board...
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david__winter
Mar 17, 2002 8:32 pm
Hi Steve, Thanks for your reply. My machine has the 2-board set for video output, so I only need the rest. An interesting point is that I have the schematics...
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alltare
Mar 15, 2002 10:06 pm
David, The Attache is really an Altair 8800bT. The difference, other than physical appearance, is that it used a special 2-board set for video and keyboard...
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david__winter
Mar 15, 2002 8:34 pm
Hi there, I acquired a MITS/ICOM Attache machine. Since thie machine is really rare (around 200 made, mine being #32), maybe some of you need to know that it...
