Altair8800 'kit' - can you identify this stuff?

[Randy McLaughlin]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com>
> >From: "William Layer" <william.layer at comcast.net>
<snip>
>>A card marked "Vector 8800V", which is a complete and utter disaster of 
>>Kynar
> and flying components. I wouldn't let this thing near a running system. 
> (seems
> like a generic breadboard card, which has been built into some form of 
> custom
> hardware, has a large device marked "Analog Devices 940", and about 12 
> other
> chips, plus a pile of discete components)
>
> I believe the 940 is an amplifier module but I'm not sure. It
> could be a voltage converter as well. They made many discrete
> circuit instrument amplifiers that had especially low offset
> inputs. I would get this was an analog board of some type.
>
> ---snip---
>
> It looks like a good project.
> Later
> Dwight

The 8800V is a wire-wrap card and most likely was used for a custom data 
acquisition.  It may be best to remove and ignore.


Randy