Altair 8800 Clone Computer (assembled) $621. The Altair 680 appeared about a year after Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) had introduced the Altair 8800, which many historians credit as the beginning of the home computer industry. Every part is new or new old stock. The Altair Clone provides an accurate, hands-on experience without having to worry about damaging a vintage computer. We focus on developing computer kits and boards like those you could purchase in the 1970′s and early 80′s. OS: Altair 4K, 8K BASIC, Enhanced BASIC and CP/M (with 88-DSK RAM board) Always wanted to build your own Altair but missed out during the 70′s? Shipping is additional and can be seen by … The industry for computer kits was vast and very popular with computer enthusiast of the era. The kit contains: The main controller is an Arduino, hence the name The Altair-Duino. USB to DB-9 Serial Port Adapter: $15. Pricing for the Altair 8880 Clone is straight from 1976 with some great free stuff thrown in! Altair 8800 Computer Reproduction Kit Binder: Altair Clouds Cover Sheet - 6.5MB (printed on 100lb card stock) WARNING - 221K My Full Color Manual - ERRATA SHEET - 914K 8800 TIPS - 739K Grounding Modification - 713K Parts List - 2.1MB Altair 8800 Assembly Manual - 44.7MB Altair 8800 Therory of Operation Manual - 8.9MB Altair … The kit comes with all the parts you need inside the box. There is an SD card that you bend the prongs on (more on that later) which holds the disk images. All prices are in US$. Well, now you can with the Altair 8800micro kit. In particular, I wanted it to run 8080 programs just like an The Clone is available fully assembled or in kit form. The Altair 8800 kit sold for just under $400 (about $1,700 in today's money). Ordering. Built with modern hardware on the inside, the Clone is also less expensive and much easier to keep running than a vintage computer. It became the first-ever commercially successful personal computer, especially compared to the first microprocessor-based personal computer … It is a reduced size replica of the famous machine that inspired Bill Gates to start Microsoft. The Altair 8800 included an Intel 8080 processor, "1024 word" memory boards with … Altair 8800: The Altair 8800 is a computer kit based on the Intel 8080 CPU, designed by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), which was headed by H. Edward Roberts, in 1974. If you wanted to forgo the case, you could get the kit for under $300. The Altair or Altair 8800 computer from MITS was developed by Henry Edward Roberts and introduced on December 19, 1974.It was later published on the front cover of Popular Electronics in 1975 making it almost instantly a huge success. Audio Cassette Interface: $49. During this era, computers were very expensive so many people opted to build a computer from a kit and save money. The Kit. 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