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
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/
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
ate: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 11:15:34 +0800
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On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk
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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
ir_8800c.html
Suggest you look at Mike’s multiple vintage computer offerings (web site)
AND
https://deramp.com/
His YouTube Videos (deramp5113). Here is the Altair 8800c, shown November
2018
https://youtu.be/Q5LjkL5b4n8
greg
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> greg
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> From: Tom Hunter
> To: "General Discussion”
> Subject: Altair 8800 reproduction
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> About 10 years ago Grant Stockly in Anchorage Alaska produced high quality
> MITS Altair 8800 reproductions in kit form. The website stil
gs (web site) AND
https://deramp.com/
His YouTube Videos (deramp5113). Here is the Altair 8800c, shown November 2018
https://youtu.be/Q5LjkL5b4n8
greg
w9gb
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From: Tom Hunter
To: "General Discussion”
Subject: Altair 8800 reproduction
About 10 years ago Grant Stockly in Anchorage Alaska p
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
About 10 years ago Grant Stockly in Anchorage Alaska produced high quality
MITS Altair 8800 reproductions in kit form. The website still exists:
http://www.altairkit.com/
I have tried to contact Grant but did not get a reply. Does anyone know if
these kits are still available? Is Grant on this
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