To answer your question regarding an original altair price, an 8800 generally sells around
$1800 to $3000 depending on what's included and if its shown to work. Quite expensive.
I've heard Grant Stockly (hope I'm not missing an 'e' there) is also going
to resume his Altair replicas. They're beautiful systems and exact clones but with
that level of work it also demands a higher price tag. I think they were running around
1200?
So vince's microaltair was a nice clone and smaller on purpose but also a more
affordable price.
I'm not sure if cpm was available for the apple 1 but thatd be another cheaper option
is a replica-1 running cpm.