Altair 8800 reproduction

I am not the most patient person. :-) While waiting for my Altair-Duino to arrive in the mail I discovered a cool JavaScript based implementation. It allows me to start playing with the Altair 8800 front panel and exercise the "machine". It does a fairly decent job. https://s2js.com/altair/ Cheers Tom Hunter On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 2:11 PM Tom Hunter <ccth6600 at gmail.com> wrote: > I thought about it long and hard. A fully configured Altair 8800c would > be at least $1200 plus shipping to Australia from all the different > component suppliers at least another $600. I would end up with a "real" > system but some parts wouldn't quite be real. For example the floppy drives > are emulated via a USB cable and a server running on a PC. It would be > possible to add real 8" or 5 1/4" drives plus power supplies plus cases and > cabling at great additional cost. At the end it would still be some hybrid > system with some modern bits substituting the original components. I would > have a nice S-100 bus system but it wouldn't be an authentic Altair 8800a. > So I decided to go down the fully emulated path and looked at Mike > Douglas's Altair 8800 clone and the Altair-Duino. > > I ended up buying the Altair-Duino a very promising Arduino Due (ARM) > based clone similar to Mike Douglas's clone but without the nice metal case. > This Altair-Duino kit is affordable, is open source and has a powerful > hardware platform. Now that I am retired I am time rich and money poor. > :-) > > The "Standard" kit is $149.95: > > https://www.adwaterandstir.com/product/altair-8800-emulator-kit/ > > Strangely the website says there is no stock available from the guy > himself, but Tindie has 4 in stock: > > > https://www.tindie.com/products/kb0wwp/altair-duino-standard/?pt=ac_prod_se… > > I can't wait for it to arrive. It is a long way from Minnesota to Western > Australia. Covid-19 doesn't speed it up either. :-( > > Cheers > Tom Hunter > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 1:12 AM Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk < > cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: > >> On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk < >> cctalk at classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote: >> >> The easiest and more affordable path would be the Altair >> 8800 clone but somehow I am more attracted to the non-emulated >> implementation. >> >> Understood space, time, and money are always factors, but I?m curious >> whether that?s an XOR function or a simple OR (which would be satisfied >> with both)? Having played in software on ?modern? hardware might be pretty >> useful when it?s time to start bringing up the reproduction hardware. >> >