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Welcome to the Altair 8800 Group ZOOM Meetings




New 88-SIO w/IM6402 UART ... Non-Standard backplane ... 88-PIO? ... Altair SIM from Patrick Linstruth ... DigiTalker ... 8" Floppy Drives and Power Supplies ... WM ... IMP245 ... Flex64 EEPROM ... 8080 Reference Guide from Urban E. Millen
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RS-232 ... FujiNet ... Saving WebPages ... ACR Tests & New 88-SIO
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A more complete kit for beginners ... CPU/ZPU boards that work with Altair 8800 Front Panel ... EPROMs for Flex64/FlexRAM board to build a Processor Technology Subsystem B ... Universal Serial I/O board ... AutoBAUD Rate Detection ... 8K RAM boards ... 2102 RAM chips ... ASR-33 Line Feed
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KiCAD v EasyEDA ... Reading & Writing Floppies ... Floppy Emulators ... SD Systems SBC-100 ... TeleTek SBC-1 ... OshonSoft.com Simulator ... https://virtualosmuseum.org/ ... DHansel Paper Tape Reader ... SSM IO2 Development baord ... Patrick's Development board ... https://jlcpcb.com/ Orders ... Terry's HomeBrew Satellite Simulator Computer
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Pertec 8in. Floppy Drives ... ECAD Programs ... Universal Serial I/O board ... USB 5.25in. Floppy's
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ACR board ... 88-SIO board ... Flex64 ... RS-232 I/O and SSM IO4 ... Altair 8800c Front Panel Ribbon Cable ... Sims online ... Making an EPROM with multiple programs
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RS-232 and Tim's 88-2SIOR1 to DB25 Adapters ... 1981 IBM DB25 Parallel I/O ... Centronics Connectors ... Rigid and Sliding Rack Shelves ... H-89 and other Terminals ... Patrick's Altair Mini Front Panel
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Patrick Linstruth TRS Terminal



New 10" LCD Monitor ... Bugs in DAZZLER BUGGS ... ChatGPT and Assembly Programming ... Claude Runs an Altair ... Altair Sim Problems ... Patrick's Layout SIO board ... Multi-Layer Boards ... Flux AI and other AI board designers ... Wire-Wrap boards ... Todd's 8085 SBC to go into his IMSAI 8080 ... AMON + Showing the Mnemonic of each instruction in the RAM ... UpDate on Terry's Floppy Alignment Bench Tool ... Fixing the IMSAI 8080 Front Panel on Caprio chassis ... Dust Collecting when Sanding Plastics and Soldering



Pico Analyzer ... SP-0256-AL2 ... IMSAI FDC ... Disk 1A ... RTC ... Terry's Floppy Disk Alignment System ... Shugart SA-800 Power Supplies
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Cleaning Cabinets ... Replacing Capacitors ... website Updates ... 3 of 4 SA-800's working ... Disk Alignments ... FAME board ... Teletype Repairs ... Popping Capacitors and ICs
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Parastream IMSAI Pars ... Card Guides ... Poly-88 Doc's ... Shugart 800 Power ... Alighment Floppies ... Scanning Doc's ... Z80/8080 Computers ... Keep the Earlier ZOOM Time
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ZAltair Z80c #2 ... Cromemco ZPU Fix ... Sol-20 & NorthStar Oddities ... Potential New S-100 Computer Analyzer ... KSR-33, ASR-33 and Model 15 Teletypes
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Cromemco ZPU - HAYES 1200 Modem - Anchor Electronics - Sol-20 - ZAltair Z80c #2 UpDate - Card Extractors -
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Altair 680 Video Demo on YouTube ... Who Has a Manual: http://www.brainless.org/Altair/Books&Manuals/ ... 1320 Patrick's RAM board ... 41xxx Dynamic RAM Chips ... CBBS ... Cromemco PRI boards ... EPROM Emulator ... Types of Male PIN Headers and Jumper Wires ... PoPCom Modem ... Chip Pullers ... ZAltair Z80 #2 Faults ... Poly 88 ... Pertec and Altair 8inch Floppy Drives ... Original MITS Altair 8080 CPU board w/White Ceramic & Gold CPU chip
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Sol-20 UpDates from Terry ... EconRAM Tests ... North Star Horizon RAM Tests ... Gender Changers and Jumper Blocks ... FDC+ ... ZAltair Z80c #2 UpDates
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Sol-20 Repair ... ZAltair Z80c Up 'n running ... DAZZLER Tests ... Gaming ... Hard Sector 8" Floppy Disks ... Todd's Adapters ... ESP32 Hat ... Data Cable Adapter ... SimH



It works, then it doesn't work - Keyboards - Double Density on Tarbell 2022 FDC - Terry's Computers & Shugart 8in FDD Oddities - CompuPro RAM-17 boards - Todd's Parastream IMSAI 8080 and FarmTek Altair 8800c - Tim's Page - AltairZ80Sim & SimH - TI Paper Tape Punch/Reader - OAK ICC Gould 100-0062 is the same as a SSM IO4 board - Cassette I/O - RS-232 - Mike's ACR board potential onto a Deltecent 88-2SIOR1 or 88SIOR1 -
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Thinkertoys SpeakEasy board - 2112-5039927A 4x256 NMOS RAM - 6306 and 6301 Monolythic ROM - Serial Switcher - VT-132 Terminal Emulator Kit - Surface Mount Soldering - Old Magazines - FDC+ Mod for other types of floppy drives



DAZZLER BUGGS Game - DZMBASIC - Altair 8800 Games - Tarbell 2022 - Better Documenting - OP-80A & Radio Shack Paper Tape Reader - VDM-1 - Cassette Tape Players - Tarbell 2022
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Paul's FDD Works - FDDs - Printers - Serial to Parallel - 88-2SIOJP
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Floppy Disk Image Files - Types of FDDs - Floppy Formatting - JoeMon-8080 - mini-Front Panel Computer UpDate TDL ZPU the Problem - Tape Loaders
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FDC+ to Floppy Disk Drives - UpDates on mini-Front Panel Computer Faults - INPUT Micro Soft BASIC 1.0 via Paper Tape with OP-80A - PC2Flop Program - AltairZ80Sim - Replica IMSAI 8080 from Parastream

OP-80A Write Up
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Terminal Emulators - PC Terminals - KiCAD Import & Assign Symbol & Footprint
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Stack Pointers and Registers - TDL ZPU from Hell - SD SBC100 board - KiCAD and Speech Chips - S-100 Breadboard w/basic buffers
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Card Guides, Card Ejectors, New SIO board with +5V on PIN 10 IDC connector, Cromemco ZPU IC #23 PIN 11 v. PIN 13
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Santa's WorkShop



Pololu TIC & Maestro w/MBASIC Control ... SpeakJet Speech & Singing ... PhraseALator ... XYBASIC ... the 88-2SIOJP Serial I/O board ... MakerHawk-Measurement-Capacity-Voltmeter-Detector
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Continuing to Trouble Shooting a Basic S-100 Computer Setup
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JADE Bus Probe v. S100 Bus Display Board, New 88-2SIO with Dual Addressing, More Sim Talk
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DZMBASIC Demo - CPU Boards that work with Altair 8800 Front Panel and mini-Front Panel
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Trouble Shooting the ZAltair mini-FP computer build, GoeTek & Floppy Drives
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Trouble Shooting a Basic S-100 Computer Setup
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ReSet Resistor - OP-80A Build - AltairZ80 Simulator - Visible Altair 8800 Computer OnLine
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Testing the ZAltair mini-FP Computer
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FujiNet
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Monitors - Terminals - Editors - Fuses
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