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Altair 8800 - ichabod801 - Jul-27-2017
While I was at the American History Museum on Tuesday, I got to see an Altair 8800.
RE: Altair 8800 - Larz60+ - Jul-27-2017
I got to see one in the box, take it out and use it.
That was a beautiful machine.
Sorry, I had am Imsai 8080: http://oldcomputers.net/imsai8080.html
and a polymorphics (kit 8080)
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This was my Polymorphics, with a Centronix 101 printer and a dual 8" floppy drive (90 kilobytes (not a mistake) per floppy), keyboard and monitor
RE: Altair 8800 - Larz60+ - Jul-27-2017
I also had one that I made from whatever I could find in the dumpster.
The power supply was massive, designed to run the RF amplifier for a
plasma spectrometer, but also had a highly filtered 5v (all ttl logic) power supply, and
12v needed for some of the devices. The end result was a 150 lb 8080 computer.