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Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 12:21 pm
by AltairClone
Great! I have a couple of Wyse terminals as well.

Note that as of Clone firmware version 1.91, serial port 2 can also be used to load floppy disk images. This allows using a terminal as the console on serial port 1 and using a PC connected to serial port 2 only when you need to transfer a disk image. The port to use for disk image transfer is set in the "Floppy Drive Settings" sub-menu of the "Admin" menu.

Mike

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: March 3rd, 2017, 12:52 pm
by toml_12953
AltairClone wrote:Great! I have a couple of Wyse terminals as well.

Note that as of Clone firmware version 1.91, serial port 2 can also be used to load floppy disk images. This allows using a terminal as the console on serial port 1 and using a PC connected to serial port 2 only when you need to transfer a disk image. The port to use for disk image transfer is set in the "Floppy Drive Settings" sub-menu of the "Admin" menu.

Mike


And unplug my printer?!? Never! :)
For your next clone (!) How about allowing real floppies to be interfaced? :)

Tom L

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: March 8th, 2017, 5:36 pm
by gmh
When it rains it pours. Just received another 1. This 1 can stay packed away from that yellowing Sun of ours!

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Now if only an unopened Model 33 would turn up...

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: April 5th, 2017, 10:10 am
by Jefferjs
I installed a Dell Wyse Terminal Board in my Altair and connected the Serial Port Internally, It works great

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: April 5th, 2017, 10:33 am
by toml_12953
Jefferjs wrote:I installed a Dell Wyse Terminal Board in my Altair and connected the Serial Port Internally, It works great

So you have a keyboard and monitor plugged into the terminal board? Can we se a pic of the inside of your Clone?

Tom L

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: September 22nd, 2017, 6:59 pm
by pngwen
My Altair Clone has become a fixture at the Maryville College retro game night. Two of my freshmen students are shown here playing "kill the bit", which they toggled in. Every time I show this machine to students they want to run up and flip the switches. (I always let them do it, of course!)

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: January 30th, 2018, 4:25 pm
by kurthamm
Here is my Altair with a DEC VT220 terminal. I was using the Radio Shack Cassette Player to load cassette BASIC.

Re: Post a picture of your Altair.

PostPosted: March 24th, 2018, 3:44 pm
by TomXP411
I'm a little envious, Kurt. I'd love to find a legit VT terminal for mine. As it is, I'm making do with my PC, and I have a metal-enclosed 12" LCD for when I want to go portable.

Here's my clone and my 'duino together.