Yes, it is what it looks like.
I’m the second owner.
It hasn’t been powered on in 36 years.
I’ll post more pictures as I share the story and test it carefully to make sure it’s safe to power on.
Yes, it is what it looks like.
I’m the second owner.
It hasn’t been powered on in 36 years.
I’ll post more pictures as I share the story and test it carefully to make sure it’s safe to power on.
Okay, some googling leads me to guess: Altair of some sort, 680 or 8800?
um, what is it? At first I thought it was a Sun workstation, but now I’m not sure.
Might that be an Altair 8800?
Scope? Textronix usually have a blue case and beige face… more unboxing please! Congratulations on it whatever it is– new gear for the shop is great, especially old gear from a time when things were built like tanks.
Oooh, looks like an Altair 8800.
The great thing about the 8 bit machines of that vintage is everything about them – from application software to the CPU design – is capable of fitting in one human brain.
@jeremiah – Not a lot of Sun workstations around in ’76 : )
Very cool! I’m looking forward to more about this cool piece of historical technology.
filed under Vintage Computing,
It hasn’t been powered on in 36 years. (Introduced: January 1975
Available: February 1975)
googled, gray case, blue begie face,
It is Altair 8800
. wanna to see it is alive again.
How come B:s comment is dated “September 3, 2012 at 08:06 pm”, earlier than all other comments even though it’s probably written the 4th of september. I got a notification of this post in my mail… it’s a little bit confusing when the dates don’t match.
Daniel, WordPress comments are sorted for display in the order they were submitted but notifications are sent when the comments are approved. Comments from regulars are auto-approved; comments from new commenters are moderated and approved manually, because a fair bit of comment spam still slips through the Akismet spam-guarding plugin and I refuse to have spam show up even temporarily before I can remove it.
So comments from new commenters may not appear immediately but will always sort in the order submitted once approved. And I waited to moderate B’s comment until there was a whole rash of (correct) guesses about the Altair, wanting to give everyone a chance to guess for themselves before giving it away.
Keith,
thank you for answering, and thank you for this interesting blog.
Really looking forward to read more.
WOW… Envy
I have fond memories learning on that machine. Still miss it and still haven’t gotten round to rebuilding/replacing it.
I once had a DIY 8008 System but Unfortunatley, for unknown reasons It got stollen.