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Building a Reproduction Altair 8800 Build Ideas to Help Make the Job Faster and Easier

The Minimum Components . . . . . . . . . . Altair 8800c Components Altair 8800c Cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Altair 8800c Cabinet Power Supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Power Supplies Back Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back Plane JAIR 8080A CPU Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Altair 8800 CPU Board Front Panel Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Front Panel Boards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88-2SIOJP Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FDC+ Board

- Starting the Build -

9-Slot Back Plane Contact: Todd Goodman = tacoman656 gmail com to buy the blank board 9-Slot Back Plane Manual The build on this is simply installing all the S-100 card slot connectors and Power Connector. DigiKey.com or Mouser.com 6-PIN Power Connector Male & Female and wires AllElectronics.com Add jumper wires across the six "fuse" positions or install the fuses, although they're not really needed since the power supplies shut down to prevent blowing anything in the computer up. DO NOT Install any other components I had already started building the back plane when I found I wouldn't need all the other components. After installing the 9 edge connectors and the power connector, the three LEDs and their associated resistors is all that's needed. The fuses should just be jumper wires.

Power Supplies The recommended power supplies are smaller switching type. The old giant heavy analogs are not used anymore. MEAN WELL USA Inc. You need TWO: "RS-25-15" for +15V and -15V Digikey.com or Mouser.com or JameCo.com You only need ONE: "HRP-75-7.5" for +8V Digikey.com or Mouser.com or JameCo.com a.c GND is Cabinet/Chassis GND and Should Connect to the Back Plane GND too! Power Supplies Wiring Diagram

My First CPU Board Choice = JAIR 8080A CPU Board Contact: Josh Bensadon jbensadon = hotmail com to buy the blank board What you get with the JAIR 8080A CPU Board; 8080A CPU Altair 8800 8-PIN Front Panel Connector IMSAI 8080 16-PIN DIP Front Panel Connector Up to 64K RAM System Memory 32K EPROM for Boot Strap Programs Two RS-232 Serial Ports SPI Serial Peripheral Interface SPI SD Memeory Card 8-BIT Parallel I/O The JAIR 8080A CPU Board Manual Find the well done BOM (Bill of Materials) in the manual EPROM & SD Card Software JAIR-BOM.xlsx 10-PIN Header to Serial 9-PIN "D" Connector or 10-PIN Header to Serial 9-PIN "D" Connector JAIR 8080A CPU Board on S100Computers.com The JAIR is an all-in-one board needed to be a stand alone Altair 8800 computer

Altair 8800c Cabinet Contact: Mike Douglas = deramp5113 yahoo com Buy from deramp.com/altair_8800c 3D Printer Male 9-PIN "D" Adapter .STL Yellow and Green 3D Printer Female 9-PIN "D" Adapter .STL Blue and Red

Altair 8800c Front Panel Boards Contact: Mike Douglas = deramp5113 yahoo com The 8800c Front Panel board set is sold as two bare boards only 50 PIN Ribbon Cable from Front Panel to Interface Board Altair 8800c Front Panel BOM.xlsx

- Time to Play and Learn Some of the Popular Software -

The Lost 1975 Altair Software Library The Lost 1975 Altair Software Library Some of this translates to any Altair 8800 or S-100 Computer Getting Started with the Altair-Duino Pro

- Altair Software from other websites -

deramp.com/downloads/altair/software vintage-basic.net Got a link to share with everybody? Please email it to me: wperko@brainless.org

Still Too Bored?
Replica Boards Moving Closer to an Original Altair 8800

MITS Reproduction 8080 CPU Board Contact: Gary Kaufman = gkaufman the-planet org http://the-planet.org/ MITS Altair 8800 CPU Manual .PDF 1975 MITS Altair 8800 CPU BOM Scanned Image of Original MITS Altair 8800 CPU Parts List circa19750207 8-PIN CPU to Front Panel Connector

88-2SIOJP Dual Serial Port Board Contact: Martin Eberhard = mfeberhard gmail com https://deramp.com/2SIOJP.html SetUp for primary Altair 8800 serial ports A (Console) and B (External I/O) Two serial ports compatible with the MITS 88-2SIO One 2716 or 2732 EPROM, or 2816A EEPROM socket Automatic EPROM disable allows full 64K-bytes of RAM Power-on/reset jump start Improved power-on clear circuit, eliminates Reset switch toggles Support for S-100 systems without front panels Support for Z-80 CPU's Notes Getting to Know How to Use the AMON Program

FDC+ Enhanced Floppy Disk Controller https://deramp.com/fdc_plus.html Buy from deramp FDC+ FDC+ is an enhanced version of the original MITS 8" floppy disk controller 100% compatible drop-in replacement for the original two-board Altair FDC FDC+ includes up to 64K of RAM and 8K of PROM that can be separately enabled RAM can be enabled in 1K increments PROM can be enabled in 256 byte increments Minidisk controller compatable Shugart SA-800 (or equivalent) drives compatable 5.25" Shugart SA-400 (or equivalent) drives compatible Hard and Soft Sectored Media Support 96 TPI, High-Density 5.25" Drive compatiblity like Teac 55-GFR FDC+ includes built-in, high speed serial port that can connect to a PC running a serial disk server FDC+ Manuals, Software and Related Resources Notes Connecting and Using the FDC+ Serial Drive Server Windows Program

Moving towards the five board Altair 8800 System B

Processor Technology CUTS board

Processor Technology GPM board I'm looking for one or a suitable replacment.

Processor Technology 3P+S board I'm looking for one of these too. data

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