I recently bought an Altair 680 case on eBay, and am planning on trying to build some kind
of 6800-based board to go in it. I'd like the front panel to be authentic-looking,
and have been digging through my old Byte magazines and some web sites to try to figure
out the switches they used. I've seen mostly bat-handled mini-toggles, but a few
pictures have shown flattened bat-handles. I would also need to know the switch
configuration (i.e. double-throw, single-throw, momentary, etc.) for the various switches.
It seems like there's a lot less info around on the 680 than there is on the 8800,
although I did find a pretty good article about the "new" Altair 680 in one of
my "Best of Byte" volumes. Can anybody supply some switch info? Dimensions
would be good; manufacturer and part number might be better.
I wasn't really planning on building a 680, but I did my usual semi-annual search of
eBay for the keyword "Altair" and there was this pretty (but empty) 680 case,
and in a classic illustration of Pavlovian response, I clicked "bid"...
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