8 Jul
2007
8 Jul
'07
2:29 a.m.
Well, another labor of "love" for the past 6 months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
Thanks,
Grant
8 Jul
8 Jul
4:52 a.m.
Grant Stockly wrote:
Well, another labor of "love" for the past 6
months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
wow. that is beautiful. very nice work!
-brad
8:56 a.m.
On 8 Jul 2007 at 1:29, Grant Stockly wrote:
Well, another labor of "love" for the past 6
months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
Looks very nice, Grant! I have to admit to only having seen magazine
photos of the MITS 680--I never knew anyone who actually owned one.
Cheers,
Chuck
1:01 p.m.
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
Well, another labor of "love" for the past 6
months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
Oooooo.... <drool> I haven't seen or heard much of this machine, but it
looks very nice. It seems to me that MITS designed the innards of this
one with more forethought than they did the 8800.
One problem, the "www" part does not resolve for me.
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3:12 p.m.
At 12:01 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
Thanks for the comments guys. You can't go to www.altair680kit.com???!!!
Yes, it is much less of a headache than the 8800. : ) Its also quite
useful in its base form. It has a VTL-2 basic-like language in ROM which
will run in the 1k RAM onboard. By piggy backing 8 more 2102s you will
have 2k of ram, which is enough for MiniTrek and Tic Tac Toe. : )
The base form has 1k RAM, 1k ROM, a 9600bps serial port. It takes 6 big
PCBs to do the same thing with the Altair 8800. I'm still VERY fond of the
8080! ; ) The 8080 runs CP/M...
Of course the 32k ram adaptor with MITS basic will be more than enough for
the full Star Trek, or most any other basic program!
The 680 kit was fun to build...
Grant
Well, another labor of "love" for the
past 6 months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
Oooooo.... <drool> I haven't seen or heard much of this machine, but it
looks very nice. It seems to me that MITS designed the innards of this
one with more forethought than they did the 8800.
One problem, the "www" part does not resolve for me. 
3:21 p.m.
I was able to use the link to get there. Nice site too.
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Grant Stockly <grant at stockly.com> wrote: At 12:01 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
Thanks for the comments guys. You can't go to www.altair680kit.com???!!!
Yes, it is much less of a headache than the 8800. : ) Its also quite
useful in its base form. It has a VTL-2 basic-like language in ROM which
will run in the 1k RAM onboard. By piggy backing 8 more 2102s you will
have 2k of ram, which is enough for MiniTrek and Tic Tac Toe. : )
The base form has 1k RAM, 1k ROM, a 9600bps serial port. It takes 6 big
PCBs to do the same thing with the Altair 8800. I'm still VERY fond of the
8080! ; ) The 8080 runs CP/M...
Of course the 32k ram adaptor with MITS basic will be more than enough for
the full Star Trek, or most any other basic program!
The 680 kit was fun to build...
Grant
Well, another labor of "love" for the
past 6 months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
Oooooo.... I haven't seen or heard much of this machine, but it
looks very nice. It seems to me that MITS designed the innards of this
one with more forethought than they did the 8800.
One problem, the "www" part does not resolve for me.
3:33 p.m.
At 02:21 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
I was able to use the link to get there. Nice site too.
Why not have a vintage type website for a vintage computer? ; )
I'm not that old and I can remember the good old days when most websites
were text. Lots of good info and very little fluf. Apple's website with
the 1 giant gif image map... That was a good one. : )
Grant
6:05 p.m.
Why not have a vintage type website for a vintage
computer? ; )
Gopher!
Gopher!
Gopher!
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3:30 p.m.
Grant Stockly wrote:
Of course the 32k ram adaptor with MITS basic will be
more than enough
for the full Star Trek, or most any other basic program!
You can get STAR TREK on the IBM 1130. Who wants to replicate that?
The 680 kit was fun to build...
Grant
Oh dam! Now the computer science teacher
will find out I
knew about that cartridge.
9:42 p.m.
From: Grant Stockly <grant at stockly.com>
---snip---
Yes, it is much less of a headache than the 8800. : ) Its also quite
useful in its base form. It has a VTL-2 basic-like language in ROM which
will run in the 1k RAM onboard. By piggy backing 8 more 2102s you will
have 2k of ram, which is enough for MiniTrek and Tic Tac Toe. : )
---snip---
Hi
For those that are interested in VTL-2, there is a nice manual at:
http://vt100.net/mirror/harte/Altair/Altair_8800_VTL-2_Programming_Language…
I know that Pitman had a 6800 Tiny Basic as well. The PaloAltoTinyBasic
will fit int 2K of ROM if you have a monitor program to supply console
in/out.
There is a nice StarTrek for that in one of the Dr Dobs mags.
Dwight
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6:17 p.m.
On Jul 8, 2007, at 5:29 AM, Grant Stockly wrote:
Well, another labor of "love" for the past 6
months is finally done.
Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
Whoa...nice work!!
-Dave
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