Big dollars paid for Altair 8800 on Ebay

[Allison]

>
>Subject: RE: Big dollars paid for Altair 8800 on Ebay
>   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>   Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:31:35 -0800
>     To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
>
>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?

Not landfill fur sure.

I acutally have a working TVT and most of it's docs with same mods you did
save for mine was interfaced as parallel to the Altair.

Works ok with a modern LCD TV!

Allison