24 Feb
1998
24 Feb
'98
8:09 p.m.
Well, the Altair I'm thinking of buying is a turnkey w/o disks, and the
owner is too far away to enable a casual visit of this box, so I need to
do some remote diagnostics.
Here are some questions for you Altair owner/experts:
1) Was the 8800b turnkey even made by MITS, or was the lack of front panel
due to the acquisition by "serious" Pertec?
2) The turnkey model apparently has a PROM. What's in it? If there's a
monitor, how do I talk to it (baud rate, commands, that kind of thing)?
3) Assuming there's a monitor, can anybody give me a short program to
enter (by proxy) that will flash an LED or output to a terminal?
4) This thing also has a couple of Tarbell boards, one says MDL
1011D. Disk controllers?
Thanks,
Doug