4 Feb
1998
4 Feb
'98
3:18 a.m.
<From CLASSICCMP-owner(a)u.washington.edu Wed Feb 4 11:40:41 1998
<> This repair is one of the (I
<> suspect) many that will be required to bring the Altair back to life.
<> I've managed to get it (almost) firing up during the self-test stage
<
<"self-test stage"? Is this a turnkey model with a boot in ROM,
<or not?
ALTAIR 8800b (with altair disk controller) used a boot program or a boot
rom card and DID NOT have anything resembling PC self test(or any
diagnostics).
Allison