by AltairClone » November 9th, 2018, 11:28 am
I don't plan to make a kit of the Altair 8800c. Based on input, each person's ideal system is going to be a bit different, so a single version of the kit wouldn't work well. I'll update the deramp.com website soon with information about where to buy the boards shown in the video.
The 8800 CPU replica is a bare board, I plan on selling the front panel board set as bare boards, the FDC+ and 88-2SIOJP are available assembled. New mother boards will typically be bare boards.
As I was finishing this computer, I realized the one hole in the "new Altair 8800" concept is the cassette interface. The easiest solution is the little Altair Clone cassette interface connected to a vintage serial board that can be strapped to look like the 88-SIO board (e.g., the SSM IO-4 board), or an actual 88-SIO board, of course - but those are quite rare.
If a number of people build these, I may create a full board that duplicates the Altair 88-ACR board set.
Mike