Altair 680 Replica Kit available

[Andrew Burton]

I was able to use the link to get there. Nice site too.

Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk


Grant Stockly <grant at stockly.com> wrote: At 12:01 PM 7/8/2007, you wrote:
>On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
>
> > Well, another labor of "love" for the past 6 months is finally done.
> >
> > Please take a look at http://www.altair680kit.com/index.html
> >
> > I'd love to hear any questions/feedback on the subject.
>
>Oooooo....    I haven't seen or heard much of this machine, but it
>looks very nice.  It seems to me that MITS designed the innards of this
>one with more forethought than they did the 8800.
>
>One problem, the "www" part does not resolve for me.

Thanks for the comments guys.  You can't go to www.altair680kit.com???!!!

Yes, it is much less of a headache than the 8800.  : )  Its also quite 
useful in its base form.  It has a VTL-2 basic-like language in ROM which 
will run in the 1k RAM onboard.  By piggy backing 8 more 2102s you will 
have 2k of ram, which is enough for MiniTrek and Tic Tac Toe.  : )

The base form has 1k RAM, 1k ROM, a 9600bps serial port.  It takes 6 big 
PCBs to do the same thing with the Altair 8800.  I'm still VERY fond of the 
8080!  ; )  The 8080 runs CP/M...

Of course the 32k ram adaptor with MITS basic will be more than enough for 
the full Star Trek, or most any other basic program!

The 680 kit was fun to build...

Grant