Big dollars paid for Altair 8800 on Ebay

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/31/2005 at 5:06 PM Gil Carrick wrote:

>SWTP being a Texas company they would go well in our museum. What are you
>looking for?

Gil, I'm not a collector.  Just finding someone with a SWTP TVT that
they're trying to get operational would be sufficient.  I also have the
assembly instructions and schematics.

I've long since discarded the (very heavily modified) main board.  One of
the first changes I recall doing was modifying it to display 16 lines of 64
characters and recognize a few more control characters.  Interestingly,
that last was mostly done with diodes and pullups instead of TTL gates.
Shortly after that, I graduated to a Beehive Super Bee terminal.

The serial board has an NE555 installed on it with a small trimpot as a
baud rate generator.  IIRC, 7497's were pretty hard to come by back then.

I think I've got a taker, for the cards, BTW.  Just need to get them into a
small Priority Mail box and off to the PO.

Cheers,
Chuck



















>...
>> Speaking of old stuff, when looking for something else, I ran 
>> across the serial and RAM cards for the SWTP TV 
>> Typewriter--are they worth anything or are they better used 
>> as landfill material?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Chuck
>> 
>>
>
>A. G. (Gil) Carrick, Director
>The Museum at CSE
>University of Texas at Arlington
>Department of Computer Science & Engineering
>Box 19015, 471 S Cooper Street
>Arlington, TX 76019
>817-272-3620
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