The Altair-Druino kit arrived yesterday morning. I built it and am very
impressed. In many ways it is better and more useful than a real Altair
8800 or a 8800c.
Cheers
Tom Hunter
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 9:07 PM Tom Hunter wrote:
> I am not the most patient person. :-)
> While waiting for my Al
I am not the most patient person. :-)
While waiting for my Altair-Duino to arrive in the mail I discovered a cool
JavaScript based implementation.
It allows me to start playing with the Altair 8800 front panel and exercise
the "machine". It does a fairly decent job.
https://s2js.com/altair/
Chee
I thought about it long and hard. A fully configured Altair 8800c would be
at least $1200 plus shipping to Australia from all the different component
suppliers at least another $600. I would end up with a "real" system but
some parts wouldn't quite be real. For example the floppy drives are
emulate
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> To: Greg Beat
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On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
The easiest and more affordable path would be the Altair
8800 clone but somehow I am more attracted to the non-emulated
implementation.
Understood space, time, and money are always factors, but I’m curious
Hi Tom,
I finally picked these up from Mike and haven't even had a chance to go
through everything yet (due to w*rk).
I have the backplanes available, please feel free to contact me
privately if you want to.
As Greg said, the s100computer google group and s100computers.com are
both great p
Hi Greg,
I saw Mike Douglas' Altair 8800c but he writes on his website that this is
not a complete kit. I got the impression that he offers only the front
panel PCBs, FDC and SIO and maybe the S100 motherboard.
Thank you for the link to the S100computers group. There is a lot of useful
info there
Tom,
Grant moved shortly after this Kit offering, over a decade ago.
That kit is OVER (Grant no longer offering).
Participate in the S100computers Group: http://www.s100computers.com/
Join the List at Google Group: S100Computers
https://groups.google.com
Grant special ordered the metal fabrica
This comes up from time to time, I don't believe he is making any more
kits. I have not heard from him for a while.
Bill
On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 10:39 AM Tom Hunter via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> About 10 years ago Grant Stockly in Anchorage Alaska produced high quality
> MITS Alta
