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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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Altair Documentation

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Altair Documentation
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The original owner of the Altairs in my collection came across some additional documentation after a move. Included were the manuals for the disk drives, the 8800a and almost all of the S-100 cards supplied with the machines!

Reprinted with permission from Vintage-Computer.com
                                         

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Informer Z80 Microcomputertomlawrence@...  | 07/28/06
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
Nothing in the business sense from what I sawSystems Magician  | 09/28/06
ALTAIR Building control in PhoenixDensnet  | 03/13/07
Machine controlswenger  | 03/13/07
We ran our business on an Altairhschmoll@...  | 03/13/07
Most computers at this time were for Accountingmross011@...  | 08/28/07
Controlling a microwave spectrometerjschindler@...  | 02/06/08
I tested boards and played games with it.techrepublic@...  | 02/06/08
Great Articlegarykingphoto@...  | 03/13/07
Early dayslhughes@...  | 03/16/07
IMSAI 8080kenf  | 08/08/07
A little memory went a long waydansoldahl@...  | 08/23/07
What about the Altair 8080?kbproctor  | 08/22/07
Altair 8800 back in production (2008)daryl.mcdaniel@...  | 02/06/08

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