4 Sep
2014
4 Sep
'14
10:48 a.m.
On 09/04/2014 08:27 AM, drlegendre . wrote:
Really though, while that's true, it's more
about originality. The goal
here is to set the machine back to where it was when it was first built
from a kit, in 1975 or so. The rest of it is still pretty much intact, save
the "B" PSU mods. Not only would those changes be very hard to revert, but
they both period-correct -and- genuine MITS parts.
Maybe, but I think the best-selling 8800 kit was the special
introductory deal--CPU board, 2 4K DRAM boards and SIO for $1K. That's
what grabbed my attention and I'm sure that I wasn't the only one.
I picked up the acoustic coupler from a surplus TI Silent 700 parts
seller, made a power supply for it and wired it into the SIO using a
swtich to toggle between it and my TVT. Stored my files on the
mainframe at work. Eventually rigged up a cheap audio cassette recorder
to the modem and I was in business.
I don't know if a 1K RAM board with no serial I/O would have attracted
me even at $500.
--Chuck