kingchops
Experienced Member
Hi All,
I recently purchased the Altair 8800 that was advertised on the vintage-computer.com Altair page. I've wanted one for several years and jumped at the chance when I saw one available. It was safely shipped to Australia and I've managed to load the number adding program into the machine and run it successfully so I'm pretty happy that it works at the basic level. My ultimate goal is to get basic running on the machine. The machine has cpu board, two dynamic 4k ram boards and the original 1k static board, it has the cassette interface board (88-SIOB & piggyback modem) and a couple of parallel boards, the 88-4PIO and another generic one.
I was told that there was originally a terminal connected via the parallel board but don't know at this stage how to replicate that setup. I'm not sure either if I can connect a serial cable to the 88-SIOB board. My first thoughts were to do that and try to interface to a pc via a terminal emulator program. I'm currently trying to source a 88-2SIO as I've read that they were the best serial card made by MITS.
Any help of tips would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Theo
Here's a few pics:
I recently purchased the Altair 8800 that was advertised on the vintage-computer.com Altair page. I've wanted one for several years and jumped at the chance when I saw one available. It was safely shipped to Australia and I've managed to load the number adding program into the machine and run it successfully so I'm pretty happy that it works at the basic level. My ultimate goal is to get basic running on the machine. The machine has cpu board, two dynamic 4k ram boards and the original 1k static board, it has the cassette interface board (88-SIOB & piggyback modem) and a couple of parallel boards, the 88-4PIO and another generic one.
I was told that there was originally a terminal connected via the parallel board but don't know at this stage how to replicate that setup. I'm not sure either if I can connect a serial cable to the 88-SIOB board. My first thoughts were to do that and try to interface to a pc via a terminal emulator program. I'm currently trying to source a 88-2SIO as I've read that they were the best serial card made by MITS.
Any help of tips would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Theo
Here's a few pics: