I had the same confusion about Mike’s Altair 8800c not being a complete kit,
and wondering what it would take to “upgrade” my Altair 8800 Clone to be a real
Altair 8800c a bit more than a year ago. I ended up not finding very much
assistance at the time, so I bulled my way through it, and got
A lot of the younger collectors are spending ridiculous amounts of money on 486
& Pentium class machines on assorted facebook vintage and retro groups. I
don't get it either, but everyone has their fetishes and I try not to judge.
Parted out you can possibly get a couple hundred bucks out of
On 2020-07-24 06:55, Andrew Back via cctalk wrote:
I have an IBM 3194 base unit and keyboard, but no monitor. Hence would
like to try and source a suitable monitor and any suggestions on this
front would be appreciated. Failing which, also considering the
possibility of using some other
On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:15 PM, Tom Hunter via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
The easiest and more affordable path would be the Altair
8800 clone but somehow I am more attracted to the non-emulated
implementation.
Understood space, time, and money are always factors, but I’m curious
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> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 08:36, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
>
I have an IBM 3194 base unit and keyboard, but no monitor. Hence would
like to try and source a suitable monitor and any suggestions on this
front would be appreciated. Failing which, also considering the
possibility of using some other non-original monitor, but not sure what
the interface (15-pin
On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 08:36, Boris Gimbarzevsky via cctalk
wrote:
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> Was about to toss a 1987 box containing DOS 3.3 but then figured
> someone might want it. Have a couple of XT systems kicking around
> somewhere
A chap on the FB Vintage Computing group was seriously asking if an
original
Hi Tom,
I finally picked these up from Mike and haven't even had a chance to go
through everything yet (due to w*rk).
I have the backplanes available, please feel free to contact me
privately if you want to.
As Greg said, the s100computer google group and s100computers.com are
both great
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:59:51AM +, dwight via cctalk wrote:
> I would think to be a mainframe, it has to have a I/O processor. That is
> about all I can think of.
Contemporary PCs satisfy that description: GPUs are the most visible I/O
processor, and all of the other bus interfaces such as
Dwight,
Well oddly all the "PC" variants so the XT/370, AT/370, P390 & P390/E meet
that definition, in that they are 370 or 390 class CPUs that use the host PC
to handle the IO...
So the host PC is in effect the IO processor...
Dave
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Have been going through my shop and storage room trying to see what
can get rid of and wasn't aware of how much old electronics and
computers have accumulated over last 50 years. Should note that this
process has been at insistance of my wife as a lot of these boxes
just got moved whenever I
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