<I have made contact with an individual who has
<what he describes as an Altair 8800 which is
<in an "Attache" case made by Icom in 1976. Would
<appreciate any information about this "Attache".
<Is it a very desirable thing. Were very many produced, etc?
< It has MITS
<boards (CPU, IO, disk controller) and power suppy.
<He wants to trade it to me for an Imsai 8800.
<Would that be a good trade on my part?
Bewary as to some people all small airplanes are Piper Cubs! It
may not be MITS at all or only some. Calling it an ALTAIR means
specifically one of four possible boxes all desktop sized
(Altair 8800, the altair 8800B, the 8800B front pannel less version
or the Altair680).
Interesting. MITS never made a portable or toteable. At first I'd
suspected it was an Ontrona Attache. However it's either home brew
or someone used mits board and a commercial case.
Is the disk controller a two board set (altair) or something else. I
ask as the MITS boards were for 8" hard sector only and the likely board
used would the single board Icom minifloppy (5.25") controller. Those 8"
drives are huge!
Find, yes it is. If anything for the altair boards.
Good trade for IMSAI 8080, to my feelings no if you want to run it,
Yes if you want to try and make money off it. I have an Altair and
unless the boards are the 8800B series it's was cranky at best. The
IMSAI has a good front pannel as well, important for the older software
and systems.
Allison
Received on Wed Jun 24 1998 - 10:27:26 BST