From herbjohnson@comcast.net Sat Jan 29 16:32:11 2005
From: herbjohnson@comcast.net
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: Altair8800 'kit' - can you identify this stuff?
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:32:11 +0000
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From: "William Layer" <william.layer(a)comcast.net>

 >> Thanks for the info so far.. here are the ugly details on the 'kit'..
[details on the SD System S-100 card set in an Altair 8800 chassis,
with assorted other cards]

"Randy McLaughlin" posted:

Herb Johnson has some great stuff on your disk controller you need to get:

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

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Thanks for the referral, Randy. In fact I have manuals on most of the 
cards that William mentioned, and I've emailed William accordingly. As 
Randy posted, it looks to me like there is not much left of the Altair, 
in the Altair! The SD System stuff probably ran the CP/M or SDOS system 
on those disks with that system. It would be reasonable, in fact, to get 
*another* S-100 box and put those SD System cards in THAT; and to see 
about rebuilding the remaining, actual MITS cards and the MITS chassis 
seperately. The MITS might need a very old memory card to work with that 
8080 processor and front panel, due to some bus differences.

But it's all in what the new owner wants to do and what resources he 
obtains to do so.

Herb JOhnson

Herbert R. Johnson, voice 609-771-1503, New Jersey USA
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S-100 IMSAI Altair computers, docs, by "Dr. S-100"



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From randy@s100-manuals.com Sun Jan 30 14:47:10 2005
From: randy@s100-manuals.com
To: test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org
Subject: Altair8800 'kit' - can you identify this stuff?
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 14:47:10 +0000
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From: "Herb Johnson" <herbjohnson(a)comcast.net>
> From: "William Layer" <william.layer(a)comcast.net>
>
> >> Thanks for the info so far.. here are the ugly details on the 'kit'..
> [details on the SD System S-100 card set in an Altair 8800 chassis,
> with assorted other cards]
>
> "Randy McLaughlin" posted:
>
> Herb Johnson has some great stuff on your disk controller you need to get:
>
> http://retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff/s100.html
>
> -----------------------
>
> Thanks for the referral, Randy. In fact I have manuals on most of the 
> cards that William mentioned, and I've emailed William accordingly. As 
> Randy posted, it looks to me like there is not much left of the Altair, in 
> the Altair! The SD System stuff probably ran the CP/M or SDOS system on 
> those disks with that system. It would be reasonable, in fact, to get 
> *another* S-100 box and put those SD System cards in THAT; and to see 
> about rebuilding the remaining, actual MITS cards and the MITS chassis 
> seperately. The MITS might need a very old memory card to work with that 
> 8080 processor and front panel, due to some bus differences.
>
> But it's all in what the new owner wants to do and what resources he 
> obtains to do so.
>
> Herb JOhnson
>
> Herbert R. Johnson, voice 609-771-1503, New Jersey USA
> <a href="http://retrotechnology.com/herbs_stuff"> web site</a>
> <a href="http://retrotechnology.net/herbs_stuff"> domain mirror</a>
>     **MY "njcc.com" site & email is EXPIRED **
> my email address: herbjohnson ATT comcast DOTT net
> if no reply, wait & try: hjohnson AAT retrotechnology DOTT com
> "Herb's Stuff": old Mac, SGI, 8-inch floppy drives
> S-100 IMSAI Altair computers, docs, by "Dr. S-100"

Herb I just mentioned you and your service in another post about an MDS 
system but I forgot to mention you have hardware/software/docs for some 
Intel systems and may want to respond to that thread.


Randy
www.s100-manuals.com 

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