DE9-DB25 and 10mm Panel Mount Adapters
https://pinshape.com/items/126417-3d-printed-de9-db25-panel-mount-adapters


Keystone Electronics 7232 JACK SCREW HEX 4-40
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/7232/316674

Keystone Electronics 7279 Slotted JACK SCREW HEX 4-40
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Getting an Altair 8800c Computer SetUp and Going
AltairReferenceCARD.pdf Created by Thomas Niccum
66 Various Books on BASIC
8080InstructionsQuickRef.zip

Altair 8800c Hardware Assembly & BOOT to CP/M & MBASIC
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2024 UpGrades
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Altair 8800c Basic Boards
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Inserting the Boards
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Run FDC+ Serial Drive Server
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Front Panel Power ON & BOOT
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PC/TeraTerm
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Useful CP/M & MBASIC NFO
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Swapped out the MITS 8800 CPU board for a TDL ZPU board
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VOTRAX SC-01A PAiA SS100 Speech Synthesizer board
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. . .

2022 Prices:
. . .
Front Panel Board Set + Altair 8800c Cabinet = $398
Reproduction MITS 88 CPU rev.1 board = $125
. . . Martin Eberhard 88-2SIOJP I/O board = $125
FarmTek FDC+ board = $170
Three Mean-Well Power Supplies = $80
. . . 9-Slot Backplane $26
10x EADC 346-100-500-202 S-100 Edge Connector $180
Miscellaneous Parts = $100
. . . SubTotal = $1,204


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2024 UpGrade


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ReAffirming the TDL ZPU w/a Z80 CPU
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TDL ZPU w/a Z80 CPU



Swapped out the 88-2SIOJP board for the newer 88-2SIO1A Serial I/O board
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88-2SIO1A Prototype/Test Serial I/O board (88-2SIO1B Coming Soon)

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TOP Switch Port 0: ON ON ON ON for Serial I/O NO Flow Control

TOP Switch Port 1: OFF OFF OFF OFF for Serial I/O Flow Control

Port 0 VEC INT = ALL OFF
Port 1 VEC INT = ALL OFF

As you can see this board is addresses as;
Console on Port 0 address: 10h/11h = 16d/17d
Utility Serial on Port 1 address: 12h/13h = 18d/19d

. . . The Utility Serial Port 1 is attached to a US Robotics Modem



Back Panel Mounting

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DE9-DB25 and 10mm Panel Mount Adapters
https://pinshape.com/items/126417-3d-printed-de9-db25-panel-mount-adapters


Keystone Electronics 7232 JACK SCREW HEX 4-40
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/7232/316674

Keystone Electronics 7279 Slotted JACK SCREW HEX 4-40
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/keystone-electronics/7279/2745925?s=N4IgTCBcDaIMwDYC0B2MKCcSByAREAugL5A

I'm using M3x35mm bolts to mount the assemblies to the Altair 8800c back panel.


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Changed the FDC+ Serial Drive Server board Settings
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NEW FDC+ Serial Drive Server board Settings

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Drive Type Select: SW3 = OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON ON

RAM Size: SW1 = OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF

PROM AdressSW2 = ON ON ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF

Interrupt Select = SW4 = OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF



Adding a DAZZLER II board
. . .

The S100 Group DAZZLER II

Jumper K1 Bottom Two Shunted

Jumper K4 Top two Shunted

All other Jumpers are OPEN

SW1 = OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF

SW3 = ON ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF OFF

SW4 = ON ON ON ON ON OFF OFF OFF

SW5 = ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON

SW6 = ON ON ON ON ON ON ON ON



2nd 88-2SIO1A Prototype/Test board for a Utility RS-232 Port 0 and a SpeechBox Port 1 (88-2SIO1B Coming Soon)

TOP Switch Port 0: ON ON ON ON for RS-232 Serial I/O NO Flow Control

TOP Switch Port 1: ON ON ON ON for RS-232 Serial I/O NO Flow Control

Port 0 VEC INT = ALL OFF
Port 1 VEC INT = ALL OFF

As you can see this board is addresses as;
Utility Serial Port 0 address: 00h/01h = 00d/01d
SpeechBox on Serial on Port 1 address: 02h/03h = 02d/03d




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So you bought an Altair 8800c cabinet from Mike Douglas/Farmtek

Then got the other recommended boards & Power Supplies etc.
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9-Slot Backplane Manual
No components needed other than the S-100 Edge Connectors a jumping the fuse points
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Search criteria
"100 pin 2x50 S100 Bus Backplane Pitch Card Edge Connetors"
or
"card edge connector dual 100"

EADC 346-100-520-202 or EADC 346-100-500-204 or EADC 346-100-520-802 or FUPH8010-100MTNE

DigiKey.com or Mouser.com



The Mean-Well Power Supplies

You need TWO: "RS-25-15" for +15V and -15V
Digikey.com or Mouser.com or JameCo.com

and ONE: "HRP-75-7.5" for +8V
Digikey.com or Mouser.com or JameCo.com



DigiKey.com is one source for the power connectors

WM2104-ND 0009503061 Molex CONN RCPT HSG 6POS 3.96MM

WM2300CT-ND 0008500105 Molex CONN 18-24AWG CRIMP TIN

WM4624-ND 0026604060 Molex CONN HEADER VERT 6POS 3.96MM



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Altair 8800c Basic Boards


Altair 8800c Front Panel Interface
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Reproduction MITS 8080 CPU
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Martin Eberhard's Altair 8800c 882SIOJP

. . . . . SW1 = 00011111 ... SW2= 11011100 ... SW3 = 00000000 ... SW4 = 000100000 ... SW5 = 000100000

J1 = 4-5 ... J2, J3, J4, J5, J6, J7, J8, J9, J10, J11, J12, J13, J14, J15 = OPEN

J16 = 1-2 ... J17 = OPEN ... J18 = JUMPER, J19 = OPEN ... J20 = CC/8080

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Mike Douglas/FarmTek Altair 8800c FDC+ board

. . . . . SW3 = 00000111 ... SW1 = 00000000 ... SW2 = 01110000 ... SW4 = 00000000 ... J3 = OPEN

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Inserting the Boards



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Altair 8800c Front Panel Interface
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Reproduction MITS 8080 CPU board
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Martin Eberhard 88-2SIOJP
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Mike Douglas FDC+
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Run FDC+ Serial Drive Server


First, Get the FDC+ Serial Drive Server Software
or the FDC+ Serial Drive Server Software Modified by Patrick Linstruth


Now a folder on your PC with a set of .DSK files including a BOOT .DSK
. . . . . My Stash of .DSK files all zipped up CACHE-O-DSKs.zip for sharing


FDC+ Serial Drive Server
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Disk 0 = the CP/M or DOS BOOT .DSK file

Disk 1 = Other Program FDD .DSK

Disk 2 = Other Program FDD .DSK
Disk 3 = Other Program FDD .DSK
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Front Panel Power ON & BOOT


Set the Sense Switches as in the photo

. . . . . Address FF00 = PROM MONITOR on FDC+ board
A15, A14, A13, A12, A11, A10, A9, A8 = UP
A7, A6, A5, A4, A3, A2, A1 = DOWN


Switch DOWN to Power ON
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Switch UP to STOP
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Switch UP to RESET
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Switch UP to Examine
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Switch DOWN to RUN
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PC/TeraTerm

Connect Port A from the 88-2SIOJP board to the PC via a RS-232 to USB adapter cable
Use the "Device Manager" to identify the COM port used by the RS-232 adapter cable
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Install and SetUp TeraTerm on your PC
< Setup > - < Serial Port > - < Port: >
. . . . . Enter the COM Port number from the Device Manger

< Speed: > = 9600

. . . . . < Transmit delay > = 10 and 100 msec/line


After "RUN"ing the BOOT from FFOO
. . . . . On the PC/TeraTerm display you will see;


You are at the CP/M Prompt
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From here you can type DIR or LS to see the files on a drive
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The command line to run MBASIC from the A: drive and the GALAXY.BAS program on the B: drive
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Useful CP/M & MBASIC NFO

SetUp LPRINT to Port B address 12h/13h or 18d/19d
. . . . . B:STAT LST:=UL1:
.

Now in a MBASIC program you can PRINT to the console screen, or LPRINT to the Utility Serial Port B

This simplifies sending $trings of Data to the Utility Port B
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The "LS" command provides a listing of the files on the selected disk drive
e.g.,
. . . . . A>LS D:

IF you perform the LS command for each drive, then run the "STAT" program and then the "SURVEY" program

. . . A0>STAT
.

A: R/W, Space: 7940k
B: R/W, Space: 7188k
. . . C: R/W, Space: 28k

D: R/W, Space: 34k

. . . A0>C:SURVEY

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *** System Survey (June 82) ***

. . . Drive A: 244K bytes in 26 files with 7940K bytes remaining

Drive B: 996K bytes in 159 files with 7188K bytes remaining
Drive C: 272K bytes in 35 files with 28K bytes remaining
. . . Drive D: 266K bytes in 31 files with 34K bytes remaining


Memory map:
. . . 0 . . . . . . . . 8 . . . . . . . . 16 . . . . . . . 24 . . . . . . . . 32 . . . . . . . 40 . . . . . . . . 48 . . . . . . . 56 . . . . . . . 64

| . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . . |
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCBBBBBBBBBBBRRRR
. . . T=TPA C=CPM B=BIOS or unassigned R=ROM or bad

BIOS at C403 iobyte 55 drive 00 BDOS at B606

. . . 61439 Bytes RAM 4096 Bytes ROM 46598 Bytes in TPA

0 Bytes Empty 65535 Total Active Bytes

. . . Active I/O ports:

08 0A 0B
10 11 12 13
. . . . . F0 F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 FA FB FC FD FE

22 Ports active

. . . A0>



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Swapped out the MITS 8800 CPU board for a TDL ZPU board


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Original Reproduction MITS 8800 CPU board

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TDL ZPU board ... slightly modified for maximum speed
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The TDL ZPU board allows the computer to handle 8080 and Z80 instructions
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