MITS Altair 8800 demonstration
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Uploaded by BigDon163 on Jul 13, 2008
Shows how to load a bootloader, run the bootloader, boot MITS 8k BASIC, load a craps game and run it on a MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer.
The Altair is arguably the first hobbyist / personal computer and it spawned a little company named Micro-Soft.
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real programmers don't need a monitor ;-)
1 year ago 9
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chuck norris can play crysis on this
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im a professional electronic engineer and i have made a small computer like this. sitches on 8 databus and 16 address bus. 64 kb ram and UART to communicate with a terminal programm. i wish i had the money, i would build another one but a bit better. 8bit comuters rule!
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@rockangel1967 WINNING:)
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@axel1973w I had a Teletype ASR-33, which had a paper tape reader in it (hence the A, meaning Automatic). It was a very simple device, BASIC came wrapped in paper tape format, which looks like adding machine paper, except a bit thicker, and it has holes punched in it. Each row represented a complete byte. I would load the tape into the teletype, key in the loader, run the loader, and start the paper tape loader. It would blindly copy the bits out the RS-232 port. Took a few mins to load BASIC.
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@axel1973w A dumb terminal, of course.
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i wonder how close the replica kits are to the real deal? if they every become available again i want to get one...
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I bet that can run crysis 2 easy...
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Ok I don't have the best knowledge of computer science in the world, but it looks like he was putting binary inputs onto the left side of the machine but it only had 6 switches I would have thought it would need 8. And what were the input/options for the basic interpreter back then?
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Where did you buy yours?
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Why don't I hear the fan?
6364gg2 1 year ago
@6364gg2
The base unit didn't need the fan. A fully loaded one needed two!
BigDon163 1 year ago
bill gates wrote basic for the altair
go4freedom56 1 year ago 9
@go4freedom56
Not alone..... It was their muse though.
BigDon163 1 year ago 2