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AltairManuals.com has TECHNICAL MANUALS for almost every MITS and Altair product, including MITS calculators and other pre-Altair equipment. Also has manuals for other manufacturers of early personal computers, such as Processor Technology and SWTPC. CDROM versions will be available in early 2004.
Buy and Sell Altairs and MITS products on ebay
"My collection of computers and associated equipment that I have built, known, worked with, admired, repaired, or saved from a fate worse than the scrap heap." -- Jim Willing
Andy Kessel's page includes very useful startup information, including configuration of I/O and TurnKey boards. He has free downloads of several BASIC versions, too.
Classic Computer Magazine Archive
The Computer Closet rescues classic microcomputers from the junk heap, gives them a good home, and restores them to working condition to preserve our computing legacy. The collection also includes classic home video game consoles.
We focus on the 'golden' decade for microcomputers and video games: approximately 1975-1985.
PBS Online is proud to present the companion Web site for the PBS television special "Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires ." On television and the Internet, you can learn in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed "nerds" accidentally changed the world.
The Computer Science Club of the University of California, Davis is proud to present the Computer Science Computer Museum . The Museum is a collection of personal computers from years past. Included in the museum are pictures of the machines and information about when and how the computer was used.
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Virtual Altair User Group at MSN |
Supporters of the Virtual Altair Museum, Altair Owners, Former employees of MITS, Pertec, or Icom, and anyone else interested in Altair Computers.
"We are collectors of the world's first microcomputers, the various versions of the Altair. The goal of this site is to build a resource for every owner or collector of Altair computer parts, software, publications, and pictures. Please feel free to contribute to our message board. "
Michael Hyman wrote a book named PC Roadkill.
Visit his site to download
Altair and IMSAI Emulators written by Claus Giloi.
"In 1999, I downloaded a copy of a MITS Altair emulator program written for the Windows platform by Claus Giloi. Claus, a programmer working for Microsoft, wrote a 16-bit Windows-based "emulator" for the Altair and IMSAI 8080-based computers. ..."
"... I've been updating the code, written between 1991 and 1997, to fix various bugs (mostly in the processor core) add features that were left out of the original design. When I originally spoke to Claus, he did admit that the original "emulator" was created more for blinkenlights than for use as a true machine emulator. ..."
Richard A. Cini, Jr.
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