Dear forum, I got hands on this Altair 8800 rev0 kit in pretty good shape that appears to never have seen the light of actual usage. The system features the default base pcb with just two populated slots including the cpu card and 1k card with 512bytes of ram.
Despite the obvious use case limitations I love the system as is and I feel it shouldn't be expanded. That said I miss be able to experience and demo usage beyond front panel operation.
Is there any known card I could use to switch the 1K memory card with something more advanced combining IO + enough ram to at least get to run Basic? Any other out of the box ideas? eg bus riser card?
Look forward to your thoughts and ideas.
Despite the obvious use case limitations I love the system as is and I feel it shouldn't be expanded. That said I miss be able to experience and demo usage beyond front panel operation.
Is there any known card I could use to switch the 1K memory card with something more advanced combining IO + enough ram to at least get to run Basic? Any other out of the box ideas? eg bus riser card?
Look forward to your thoughts and ideas.