Post a picture of your Altair.

[RyanS]

Here is mine. Loading BASIC programs off of cassette (of course).

[Drunkle]

Here is mine. Just go it last Thursday and already in the equipment rack next to my messy workbench. It's running CP/M 2.2. Kids and wife are playing Zork.

[gmh]

[gio74]

here is mine, along with some of my audio equipment :)

[mail@gabrielegan.com]

Sorry to be dozy, but how do I post a picture? Do I have to put it on some webspace of my own and keep it there indefinitely, or can this forum host the image?

Regards

Gabriel

[gio74]

I used some kind of image hosting

http://postimage.org

[toml_12953]

Sorry to be dozy, but how do I post a picture? Do I have to put it on some webspace of my own and keep it there indefinitely, or can this forum host the image?

Regards

Gabriel

Look at the top of your reply and you'll see an img button. Click that and it will allow you to attach an image from a URL. See below:

[mail@gabrielegan.com]

Thanks, Tom, I'd got that far -- my question was about where on the Internet the picture was to be hosted. Guess it has to be my own webspace unless I want to sign up for another hosting service, which I don't.

Right, are are my two pictures. The first shows an Altair being controlled by a terminal emulator running on a Compaq SLT 386s/20 laptop. (I've discovered that cheap old PCs with built in serial ports are much more reliable as stand-in dumb terminals than a modern PC running a USB/RS232 converter.) In the top-right is the GNT paper-tape punch/reader that the Altair can be booted from.



The second picture shows the Altair amongst a couple of the real old dumb terminals I've picked up on Ebay: a Lear Siegler ADM-5 and a Viewpoint 1A.



Gabriel Egan

[AltairClone]

I've enabled attachments for the forum for those who don't have a way to host images. Instead of referencing the image URL in-line with the IMG tag, use the "Upload attachment" tab below the edit window where you are typing your message.

Here's a view of the case prototype with the PCB prototype in place. Clicking on the thumbnail give a full size view.

[toml_12953]

I've enabled attachments for the forum for those who don't have a way to host images. Instead of referencing the image URL in-line with the IMG tag, use the "Upload attachment" tab below the edit window where you are typing your message.

Thanks! That'll make it easier for us. Now how about an Altair 8800B clone? I like the front panel and flat switches of those. You already have the functionality in the current version so it shouldn't be too hard to do (says the guy who never built anything in his life!) although finding a source for the flat switches may be problematic.

Tom L