front panels

From: Yowza! <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Wed Feb 25 01:09:40 1998

Well, the Altair I'm thinking of buying is a turnkey w/o disks, and the
owner is too far away to enable a casual visit of this box, so I need to
do some remote diagnostics.

Here are some questions for you Altair owner/experts:

1) Was the 8800b turnkey even made by MITS, or was the lack of front panel
due to the acquisition by "serious" Pertec?

2) The turnkey model apparently has a PROM. What's in it? If there's a
monitor, how do I talk to it (baud rate, commands, that kind of thing)?

3) Assuming there's a monitor, can anybody give me a short program to
enter (by proxy) that will flash an LED or output to a terminal?

4) This thing also has a couple of Tarbell boards, one says MDL
1011D. Disk controllers?

Thanks,
Doug
Received on Wed Feb 25 1998 - 01:09:40 GMT