Recently I had a nice chat with a gentleman on a Discord channel (theoldnet) who showed photos of his beautiful (original) Altair 8800
and also told me about some of the reproduction/clone systems that have been created.
Altair 8800c: https://deramp.com/altair_8800c.html
Altair-duino: https://adwaterandstir.com/altair/
The good news - I received an email from Mike Douglas informing me that Chris Davis who makes the Altair-duino will be taking on production of
the Altair 8800c cabinet. Chris can be reached at chris@famousdavispro.com for Altair-duino and Altair 8800c cabinet information.
The good news - I received an email from Mike Douglas informing me that Chris Davis who makes the Altair-duino will be taking on production of
the Altair 8800c cabinet. Chris can be reached at chris@famousdavispro.com for Altair-duino and Altair 8800c cabinet information.
Nice reporting - I'm enjoying the 8800c website, thanks.
:P So are you going to put one together over time???
Very neat projects.
I am trying SO HARD to not start buying Altair parts to put together! I really better do something with my KIM-1 clone first, I keep falling further behind as the fun projects queue grows!! The Altair 8800c certainly does look beautiful.
Another Altair-related treat - CBBS/TN at cbbs.mitsaltair.com:8800 is running CBBS (the original BBS software by Ward Christensen) in the AltairZ80 simulator. I know you've logged in before, Paulie, just mentioning this here for anyone else interested. It's neat to be able
to login to a CBBS system, and I found it a lot more user-friendly than
I had expected it to be. https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/cbbs-nv/
My IIe is complete and working, but fully vintage; 4
5.25" drives, 2 3.5" drives - but I never got a
'current' solution like the Big Mess o Wires SDCard
floppy emulator... floppies are so hard to come by that
its almost a requirement.
My IIe is complete and working, but fully vintage; 4 5.25" drives, 2 3.5" drives - but I never got a 'current' solution like the Big Mess o Wires SDCard floppy emulator... floppies are so hard to come by that its almost a requirement.
My IIe is complete and working, but fully vintage; 4 5.25" drives, 2 drives - but I never got a 'current' solution like the Big Mess o Wir SDCard floppy emulator...
Noice. The floppyemu works pretty well. I have some foibles here with mine, but I'm unsure if its marginal on the ribbon cables, changing them does seem to alleviate issues for a while, or its the floppy controller, although I had tried a few different ones...
Hmmmm - I've heard a lot of good about the Big Mess O Wires one... I just haven't had the $ to order one yet. You know... I saw another youtuber product that converts a 5.25" metal drive shell into a floppy emulater -
for it. Let alone a fair price ($50) but ... $440??? Freaking insane IMO.
Hmmmm - I've heard a lot of good about the Big Mess O Wires one... I just
Retro computing should be open source and I AGREE, I'm sure it took weeks and months to design the product - but I cannot get behind charging for it. Let alone a fair price ($50) but ... $440??? Freaking insane IMO.
But FloppyEMU is useful for many other things, it can also act as a hard disk with the right card on an Apple IIe, and also on the IIgs and macintosh computers, I use it on many different computers for all kinds of purposes, worth every penny.
The best hardware add-on for Apple IIe, in my opinion, is the ReActiveMicro Drive/Turbo IDE Controller, $95, and the Phasor v1.0, $135 (kit), and the replacement PSU board $70, though, I only did this one time so that I could have a spare board that I can recap at my leisure for the other apples. I think the "super serial card" is the best ebay purchase you can make, its better than using any kind of WIFI Modem and has multiple uses.
Retro computing should be open source and I AGREE, I'm sure it took w and months to design the product - but I cannot get behind charging f it. Let alone a fair price ($50) but ... $440??? Freaking insane IMO.
There's a lot of outrageous pricing going on out there. Some of it
seems to have dropped off a bit, but some are still looking for gold plated prices.
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