27 Apr
2010
27 Apr
'10
11:34 a.m.
On Apr 27, 2010, at 2:28 PM, William Blair wrote:
I was hoping he could create and sell a case/interface kit without the modern
motherboard, but since the case was part of an old function generator(?) he purchased on
eBay, a similar case would have to be mass produced which I suspect would be prohibitively
expensive in small quantities even if produced in China. If a case kit like this was in
fact made available at something approaching a reasonable price, I'd buy one in a
_heartbeat_. Typical "case mods" hold no attraction for me whatsoever. One
like this definitely would.
Have you seen Vince Briel's new Altair 8800 kit? It uses an AVR chip to emulate the
8080 CPU but has a "lights and switches" front panel that looks a lot like the
original Altair 8800.
http://www.brielcomputers.com/
As he didn't mutilate an actual Altair, I will
say
that is pretty cool
I agree.
I like the fact that he has this interfaced to Rich Cini's
Altair32 emulator so you can operate it directly via the front panel
switches instead of a mouse.