Hi Bill, Thank you for contacting me. I'd enjoy collaborating with you on Altair restoration. I took some photos a while back and put them in my dropbox at the following link. < https://www.dropbox.com/sh/88mp9wna3myb2ce/AABcNr_ne3ssgVSxR-_YiASva?dl=0> Take a gander and let me know what you think. My Altair must be one of the first ones since the Front Panel is hard wired to the sectional backplane/motherboard - 3 PCBs of 4 slots each also hard wired together to which the power supply is also hardwired. So my question is who do I make sure when I smoke test this Altair that all the smoke stays in! :) I want an operational Altair not a smoke bomb! Any ideas?
Kip Koon computer...@sc.rr.com http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of drlegendre . > Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 1:15 AM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > Subject: Re: Microsoft multiuser Basic for the Altair 8800 > > Hey Kip > > I can't help you with the software, but I just finished an Altair restoration > (my first) a few months ago, and am still interested in getting > the machine connected and actually doing something interesting. The Altair > was almost totally below the radar by the time I really > started getting up to speed on micros, which would have been around 1983-1984 > or so. This one was sort-of given to me by a former > colleague of mine, around eight years ago. It was a total basket case, a real > pile.. but it seems to be sorted at this point. > > It would be great if you'd let me follow along, keep in touch and let me know > how you're working to get the Altair linked up to the > term, getting the system bootstrapped, loading software, etc.. that's been a > problem here, figuring out the serial I card (or finding one > to replace it, that does have docs). > > Best, > Bill > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Kip Koon <computer...@sc.rr.com> wrote: > > > Hi Guys, > > > > I have finally decided to restore my original Altair 8800 which has > > been in storage for over 30 years. Does anyone have a copy of > > Microsoft's Multiuser Disk Extended Basic for the Altair 8800? When I > > was in college in '79 to '81, in the computer room was an ASR-33 > > Teletype and 3 Learseigler terminals connected to an Altair 8800B. An > > IMSAI was also there connected to one > > ASR-33 Teletype. I'd like to resurrect this multiuser Basic software > > environment on my Altair someday once the restoration is complete. > > Any help in securing a copy of all the necessary software would be > > most appreciated. > > Thanks a bunch in advance. Take care my friends. > > > > > > > > Kip Koon > > > > <mailto:computer...@sc.rr.com> computer...@sc.rr.com > > > > <http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon> > > http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon > > > > > > > > > > > >
