Altair32 Technical Links

Altair32 Emulator Project This is the beginnings of my Altair-related documents archive. Some of the items, like the Homebrew Computer Club newsletter, are more general but for now will be consolidated here.

Manuals

Altair 8800

• 8800 Theory of Operations and Schematics (3.5mb)(TE). This is mostly highly-technical information on the operations of the 8800.
• 8800 Construction Manual (full manual; 7.0mb). This manual describes the assembly and test procedures.
• 8800 Construction Manual: part 1 (3.4mb), part 2 (1.1mb), part 3 (1.3mb), part 4 (1.2mb)
• 8800 Operations Manual (full manual; 5.5mb). This would be considered to be the "user's manual" and has programming and usage information.
• 8800 Operations Manual: part 1 (1.3mb), part 2 (1.3mb), part 3 (1.6mb), part 4 (1.3mb)

Altair 8800b

• 8800b Operations Manual (full manual; 26.4mb). This manual contains the full schematics.
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 1 (1.1mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 2a (1.7mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 2b (2.1mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 3a (2.4mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 3b (2.3mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 3c (2.2mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 3d (2.1mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 3e (1.9mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 4a (2.0mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 4b (1.8mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 5a (2.1mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 5b (2.3mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Section 5c (1.9mb)
• 8800b Operations manual, Appendix (0.5mb)

Peripheral Cards (General)

• 88-4PIO Parallel I/O board (1.8mb)
• 4k DRAM board (1.2mb)
• 4k SRAM board (1.3mb)
• 88-ACR Cassette ACR (2.3mb)
• 88-VIRTC Vectored Interrupt Real-time clock (1.9mb)
• 88-DCDD Disk Drive System (13.9mb)

Peripheral Cards from other Manufacturers

   Documents relating to the Dazzler emulation. The D+A board and joystick were required for certain Dazzler programs:

• Cromemco Dazzler (2.9mb)

• Cromemco Dazzler Rev. C Manual (10.6mb)

• Cromemco 7D+A digital+analog card (0.3mb)

• Cromemco JS-1 Joystick (2.1mb)

• "TV Dazzler" article from Popular Electronics (4.3mb)
• Dazzler Games (3.4mb)
• Spacewar manual (0.3mb)

Computer Notes Newsletter

• Computer Notes Review (4/75-7/76) (5.8mb)
• January, 1977 (3.5mb)
• March, 1977 (3.7mb)
• April, 1977 (2.2mb) (HP)
• May, 1977 (4.6mb)
• July, 1977 (2.9mb)
• August, 1977 (0.7mb)
• September, 1977 (4.3mb)
• October, 1977 (4.9mb) (JC)
• November, 1977 (4.1mb) (JC)
• January, 1978 (5.7mb)

Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter

• Volume 2, Issue 1 (0.8mb) (JC)
• Volume 2, Issue 3 (0.9mb) (JC)
• Volume 2, Issue 4 (1.1mb) (JC)
• Volume 2, Issue 5 (1.1mb) (JC)

Instruction Manuals

• Altair BASIC Reference Manual (v3.2), 8/75 (3.9mb) (pdf)(JC)
• Altair BASIC Reference Manual (all versions), 7/77 (7.6mb) (pdf)
• AltairDOS User's Manual (pdf) (HH)
• Altair Programming System II manual (pdf)
• PCC Accounting Package - G/L (9.6mb)(pdf)
• PCC Accounting Package - A/R (11.1mb)(pdf)
• PCC Accounting Package - Inventory (7.5mb)(pdf)
• PCC Accounting Package - A/P (10.6mb)(pdf)
• PCC Accounting Package - Payroll (11.8mb)(pdf)

Related Magazine Articles

• BYTE (06/76) "About the Cover" introducing the Dazzler (pdf)
• BYTE (12/76) "Cybernetic Crayon" (a drawing and graphics system) (pdf)
• BYTE (11/79) "A Proposed Graphics Standard" (standardized system code) (pdf)
• Interface Age (03/77) "Card of the Month: Dazzler" (pdf)
• Interface Age (08/78) "Date and Time for CP/M" (pdf)
• Mini-Micro (08/81) "Getting Compatible with CP/M" (pdf)

Data Sheets

• Intel 8080 Instruction Set summary (4.8mb)(pdf)
• Complete Intel 8080 Data Sheet (7.1mb)(pdf)
• Intel 8080 Assembly Language Programming Manual (7.3mb)(pdf)

Submitted Files

Pictures of the Cromemco Dazzler emulation in operation: pic1, pic2

• CP/M User's Group File Archive (4.8mb) (zip)
• SIG/M User's Group File Archive (44.1mb) (zip)
• SIMTEL CP/M Message Archive (7.8mb) (zip)
• Miscellaneous MITS Papertapes (17k) (zip): This archive contains paper tape images for the MITS Assembler, Editor, Debugger, Monitor, and Vector Graphics VDM drivers. No documentation is available for these yet so I don't know how to load or run them.
• Martin Eberhard created a bunch of utilities and instructions for working with and manipulating real MITS Absolute Tape Format tapes. This file contains the utilities and instructions. (zip)(0.7mb)

Web Links

Herb Johnson: http://retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s100.html

Howard Harte: http://www.hartetechnologies.com/manuals

Bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org

IttyBittyComputers: http://www.ittybittycomputers.com/

Vintage Computer Festival: http://www.vintage.org/

Vintage Computer Index: http://vintage-computer.com/vcforum/index.php

My other Classic Computing web site: http://www.classiccmp.org/cini

The N8VEMM CP/M Project: http://groups.google.com/group/n8vem