Help with getting an original Altai running: 8080A clock circuitry and MITS88 2-SIO board

-----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of drlegendre . 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 > > > >