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Inside the Altair 8800 vintage computer

by  | 07-19-06

Tags: altair, dinosaur sightings, old computers, hardware, off topic, geekend

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One of the 4 Seals 8k static RAM cards

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One of the 4 Seals 8k static RAM cards
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The Altair 8800 came with 32k of RAM on 4 Seals Electronics 8k Static RAM cards. It seems to run properly with these, but I can't imagine that the power supply supported this much draw.

Reprinted with permission from Vintage-Computer.com
                                         

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Dinosaursjed.gart@...  | 07/29/06
Name taken from Star Trek?clichowicz@...  | 09/23/06
One of the best "mind" movies ever!cheshirecat7  | 09/29/06
Robbie the Robotgcreamer@...  | 10/02/06
Altair was a real star before either of theseralphclark  | 03/13/07
what exactly...glassangel  | 09/27/06
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