24 Aug
2012
24 Aug
'12
7:18 a.m.
Since I bought one of original installment "kits" I guess I can answer.
The Altair kit was shipped as monthly component / kit assembly.
Case, power supply, front panel, mother board.,CPU, board, 256 Byte
memory, One was was received each month.
The anticipation was horrible.
The last shipment was the CPU and I was unable to get the machine to
work in any way.
I figured I had screwed up and didn't try to recover my loss or demand a
new part from "what ever the hell their name was" MITS?
Micro instrumentation and telemetry systems? Hell, I'm not brain dead yet!.
No internet, 2 minutes to recall, Fair weekend and 4 beers under my belt.
On summer vacation a few years later, I purchased another CPU and the
machine worked.
Intel later denied any sub-standard or defective parts were shipped to
MITS for the machine.In public
Jim.
microcode at zoho.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 08:16:24PM +0000, barythrin at
gmail.com wrote:
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.
Thanks for the info. I had no idea.
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?
Still cheaper than the originals!