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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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MITS Altair 8800 PROM board

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MITS Altair 8800 PROM board
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The MITS Altair 8800 PROM board is actually a Solid State Music card. The 2k/4k EPROM board used in both of my Altair systems came from the Solid State Music company. 1702a EPROMS were used to store the boot loader for the disks and potentially paper tape or cassette tape.

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
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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
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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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