7 Feb
2016
7 Feb
'16
3:18 p.m.
Sure, I'm glad to help - but bear in mind that I'm a technician, not an
engineer - and solid-state logic isn't even my field! ;-)
And please don't leave the other members out of the loop - they're some of
the guys who helped +me+ through +my+ project..
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
Hi drlegendre,
Care go be a sounding board/technician troubleshooter when the time comes
for me to start this journey? :)
Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
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Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 5:39 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Help with getting an original Altai running: 8080A clock
circuitry
and MITS88 2-SIO board
I'll not pretend to be any sort of Altair expert, but I did manage a
fairly
involved rebuild / restoration of one, about a year back. Here's
a link to the set of documents I collected in the
process:
https://nerp.net/~legendre/altair/
My machine is restored to what you might call a "freshly built" state,
so the only boards present are the 8080A CPU and a third-party
SRAM board. The front panel is also re-installed
and working.
I haven't been able to find (afford..) a genuine MITS RAM board for it,
much
as I'd like one. =/
On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I also have an original Altair 8800 that has not been powered up since
> I was in my late teens or early twenties. I'm 56 now and I was
> wondering if anyone has put together a document for successfully
> restoring Altair computers specifically and retro style computers in
> general. Any help is much appreciated. I have a bunch of boards in
> mine. Here are the pictures.
>
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/88mp9wna3myb2ce/AABcNr_ne3ssgVSxR-_YiASva?d
> l=0>
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Kip Koon
>
> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
>
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
>
>
>
>