Help with getting an original Altai running: 8080A clock circuitry and MITS88 2-SIO board

[Kip Koon]

Hi drlegendre,
Care go be a sounding board/technician troubleshooter when the time comes for me to start this journey?  :)  

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of drlegendre .
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2016 5:39 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Help with getting an original Altai running: 8080A clock circuitry and MITS88 2-SIO board
> 
> I'll not pretend to be any sort of Altair expert, but I did manage a fairly involved rebuild / restoration of one, about a year back. Here's
> a link to the set of documents I collected in the process:
> 
> https://nerp.net/~legendre/altair/
> 
> My machine is restored to what you might call a "freshly built" state, so the only boards present are the 8080A CPU and a third-party
> SRAM board. The front panel is also re-installed and working.
> 
> I haven't been able to find (afford..) a genuine MITS RAM board for it, much as I'd like one. =/
> 
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > I also have an original Altair 8800 that has not been powered up since
> > I was in my late teens or early twenties.  I'm 56 now and I was
> > wondering if anyone has put together a document for successfully
> > restoring Altair computers specifically and retro style computers in
> > general.  Any help is much appreciated.  I have a bunch of boards in
> > mine.  Here are the pictures.
> >
> > <
> > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/88mp9wna3myb2ce/AABcNr_ne3ssgVSxR-_YiASva?d
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> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kip Koon
> >
> > computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> >
> > http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
> >
> >
> >
> >