28 Aug
2008
28 Aug
'08
6:58 p.m.
I've never seen an altair with a front panel like
the one on ebay item #160276656912. Has anyone else?
Is is located close to where I work and I'm thinking
of asking the seller if I can stop by and have a look.
If it's nothing unusual, I won't bother.
Bill Sudbrink
29 Aug
29 Aug
4:17 p.m.
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
I've never seen an altair with a front panel like
the one on ebay item #160276656912. Has anyone else?
Is is located close to where I work and I'm thinking
of asking the seller if I can stop by and have a look.
If it's nothing unusual, I won't bother.
Nobody has an opinion on this??? Or is everybody about to
snipe the auction?
4:22 p.m.
On 8/29/08 7:17 PM, "Bill Sudbrink" <wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Later I'm going to go downstairs and look at the serial number for my 8800b.
I have never seen a front panel color combination like this before in any
pictures.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.com
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
I've never seen an altair with a front panel like
the one on ebay item #160276656912. Has anyone else?
Is is located close to where I work and I'm thinking
of asking the seller if I can stop by and have a look.
If it's nothing unusual, I won't bother.
Nobody has an opinion on this??? Or is everybody about to
snipe the auction?
4:24 p.m.
On 8/29/08 7:22 PM, "Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net> wrote:
On 8/29/08 7:17 PM, "Bill Sudbrink"
<wh.sudbrink at verizon.net> wrote:
Ok, I just realized it's an 8800 and not the 8800b I have. I wonder if MITS
produced an 8800b-like retrofit panel for the 8800, or maybe some third
party did. If you look at the close-up of the switches, you can see wear on
the white background. So, it's got to be age-correct.
Rich
--
Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.com
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Later I'm going to go downstairs and look at the serial number for my 8800b. I
have never seen a front panel color combination like this before in any
pictures.
I've never seen an altair with a front panel like
the one on ebay item #160276656912. Has anyone else?
Is is located close to where I work and I'm thinking
of asking the seller if I can stop by and have a look.
If it's nothing unusual, I won't bother.
Nobody has an opinion on this??? Or is everybody about to
snipe the auction? 
8:43 p.m.
On 29 Aug 2008 at 19:24, Richard A. Cini wrote:
Ok, I just realized it's an 8800 and not the 8800b
I have. I wonder if MITS
produced an 8800b-like retrofit panel for the 8800, or maybe some third
party did. If you look at the close-up of the switches, you can see wear on
the white background. So, it's got to be age-correct.
I don't know, but I can tell you that my own 8800 began to show
considerable wear on the front panel fairly early on. I covered it
with a coat of the least awful stuff I could think of--white shellac,
which stopped the wear (and should be fairly easy to remove if the
occasion arises).
I would not be surprised if this were a retrofit panel or a custom-
screened one.
Cheers,
Chuck
6:01 p.m.
I think it is interesting...
Looks to me like an original Altair that was styled in what I call the
third generation of Altairs.. Which included the version with a simplified
front panel.
George Rachor
Hillsboro, Oregon
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George L. Rachor Jr. george at rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
Bill Sudbrink wrote:
I've never seen an altair with a front panel like
the one on ebay item #160276656912. Has anyone else?
Is is located close to where I work and I'm thinking
of asking the seller if I can stop by and have a look.
If it's nothing unusual, I won't bother.
Nobody has an opinion on this??? Or is everybody about to
snipe the auction?
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