Re: Altair 8800

2015-06-18 Thread Rick Stevens
On 06/18/2015 06:01 PM, Fulko Hew wrote: On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: Bus termination wasn't mandatory, but it sure as hell helped. Some company (can't remember who) developed an active terminator board that was much better than just passive resistors, I don't have si

Re: Altair 8800

2015-06-18 Thread Les Howell
On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 21:01 -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Bus termination wasn't mandatory, but it sure as hell helped. Some > > company (can't remember who) developed an active terminator board that > > was much better than just passive resi

Altair 8800

2015-06-18 Thread Fulko Hew
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:45 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > Bus termination wasn't mandatory, but it sure as hell helped. Some > company (can't remember who) developed an active terminator board that > was much better than just passive resistors, I don't have silk screening on mine, but I'm pretty su