Altair Owners ...

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed Jan 3 17:57:55 2001

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>


>Has anybody got an ALTAIR that actually runs CP/M?


I rans MITS DISK BASIC back when.

Also using NS* MDS-A both NSdos and CP/M-1.4.

>I have one OS for an Altair, namely a system with the MITS serial board
an a
>Morrow DJ2. Not being an Altair-owner myself, I don't know how, exactly
to
>prepare a BIOS for the two Altair add-ons I'm building up for eventual
>liquidation on eBay.


The altair was a regular conflagureation of hardware often a MITS 8080,
one
of the SIOs or 2SIOs and mostly everyone elses disk controller. the most
common at the time was the NS* MDS-A, ICOM FDOS and some of the
various 1771 based boards. Most people replaced the backplane at that
point
as the MITs bus assembly (save for the later -B version) wer really bad
for
noise.

Allison
Received on Wed Jan 03 2001 - 17:57:55 GMT