Comments on: New Arrival

By: Electrogineer

Electrogineer — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:11:49 +0000

WOW… Envy
I once had a DIY 8008 System but Unfortunatley, for unknown reasons It got stollen. I have fond memories learning on that machine. Still miss it and still haven’t gotten round to rebuilding/replacing it.

By: Daniel D

Daniel D — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:39:27 +0000

Keith,
thank you for answering, and thank you for this interesting blog.
Really looking forward to read more.

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:49:08 +0000

Daniel, WordPress comments are sorted for display in the order they were submitted but notifications are sent when the comments are approved. Comments from regulars are auto-approved; comments from new commenters are moderated and approved manually, because a fair bit of comment spam still slips through the Akismet spam-guarding plugin and I refuse to have spam show up even temporarily before I can remove it.

So comments from new commenters may not appear immediately but will always sort in the order submitted once approved. And I waited to moderate B’s comment until there was a whole rash of (correct) guesses about the Altair, wanting to give everyone a chance to guess for themselves before giving it away.

By: Daniel D

Daniel D — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:37:01 +0000

How come B:s comment is dated “September 3, 2012 at 08:06 pm”, earlier than all other comments even though it’s probably written the 4th of september. I got a notification of this post in my mail… it’s a little bit confusing when the dates don’t match.

By: oakkar

oakkar — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:31:41 +0000

filed under Vintage Computing,
It hasn’t been powered on in 36 years. (Introduced: January 1975
Available: February 1975)
googled, gray case, blue begie face,

It is Altair 8800 . wanna to see it is alive again.

By: William

William — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 15:49:56 +0000

Very cool! I’m looking forward to more about this cool piece of historical technology.

By: J. Peterson

J. Peterson — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 06:02:45 +0000

Oooh, looks like an Altair 8800.

The great thing about the 8 bit machines of that vintage is everything about them – from application software to the CPU design – is capable of fitting in one human brain.

@jeremiah – Not a lot of Sun workstations around in ’76 : )

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:21:45 +0000

Scope? Textronix usually have a blue case and beige face… more unboxing please! Congratulations on it whatever it is– new gear for the shop is great, especially old gear from a time when things were built like tanks.

By: Daniel D

Daniel D — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 04:15:55 +0000

Might that be an Altair 8800?

By: jeremiah

jeremiah — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:39:53 +0000

um, what is it? At first I thought it was a Sun workstation, but now I’m not sure.