Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later

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Erroneously assembled 1974 Altair 8800 computer gets fixed and enjoys first run in 2026 — Intel 8080 powered machine ran its first program 52 years later

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hwertz I don't know if 'Chase the Bit' was randomly more exicting in 1975 — but with no keyboard and no monitor (or printer or teletype) it does rather limit your options, and I'm sure after putting one together it is quite satisfying to play. (Then one could add a keyboard and either a video card or serial or parallel port for a printer or a terminal. ) Reply

Ramon Lopez Wow, that has to be the record for longest open ticket at the support desk. Reply

tony-w Way back then I wanted to buy the MIPS computer kit myself but couldn't afford it. I then saw the most recent edition of Electronics Australia where they said the Intel chip was too expensive and one of their engineers designed a computer using TTL logic and quite a few circuit boards. Overall the parts for that were going to be cheaper than the MIPS computer parts. I decided to build that one but quickly ran out of money as I was a poor school student at the time. There are still webpages that talk about that computer, which was called the EDUC-8. Reply

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