Original Altair Manuals
The following links are scans of original Altair, CP/M and other manuals in pdf format. Most manuals are searchable.
Software Manuals
- Altair BASIC (1975)
- Altair BASIC (1977)
- Altair Timesharing BASIC ver 1.0
- Altair Timesharing BASIC ver 2.0
- Altair DOS
- FORTRAN-80 1977 (Fortran version on the Altair DOS disk)
- FORTRAN-80 1980 Language Reference (reference information not present in 1977 manual)
- COBOL-80 1978 User Documentation
- MITS Programming System II
- Multi-Boot Loader (MBL) ROM
- TURMON Turnkey Monitor
- CP/M 1.4 User's Manual
- CP/M 2.2 User's Manual
- CP/M 3.0 Manuals
- Microsoft BASIC-80 for CP/M 2.2
- Microsoft M80 Assembler for CP/M 2.2
- Microsoft L80 Linker for CP/M 2.2
- BDS C Compiler for CP/M 2.2
- WordStar 3.0 User's Manual
- WordStar 3.0 Installation Manual
- 8080 Programmer's Manual
- 8080/8085 Programmer's Manual
Hardware Manuals
- Altair 8800 Operator's Manual
- Altair 8800 Theory of Operation
- Altair 2SIO Serial Interface (88-2SIO)
- Altair Floppy Disk (88-DCDD)
- Cassette Interface (88-ACR)
- Altair Vectored Interrupt/Real Time Clock (88-VI/RTC)
- Altair Centronics Printer Interface (88-C700)
- 8080 Processor Data Sheet
Credits
Hosting of these manuals is possible because of the hard work of people like Rich Cini, John Monahan, Dave Dunfield, Tom Sanderson and others. Their efforts in originally collecting and hosting this information has been invaluable. Thanks also to Theo Karagiris who created searchable versions of each of these document scans.