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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"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