Using a high speed reader/punch with the Altair 680 to get around the 35 minute load times for BASIC and the Assembler/Editor on the Altair 680. See deramp.com/dow...
I have been following you for a while now. Thank you for showing the Altair in its glory. There is not a single video that I dont come back with more knowledge and more amazed of how we use to do computing. Love seeing the 8800 running assembler and the trouble shooting. Keep the videos coming and thank you again.
I've wondered about how to do this very thing, and, somehow, a simple switchbox (which I used in school in the 80's for printing, even!) just never occurred to me! Neat!
Cool Video for a Nerd like me. I recently bought a little emulator for the Altair. It was a cool little machine. And you could understand every bit of it.
The only paper tapes I ever had were rather short BASIC programs and I could nearly hold the whole tape in outstretched arms. That huge pile of fettuccine on the floor looks like our fantasy "real program". But I bet having to roll it all back up again get's old pretty quickly. I love that your label on `JMP MON` is `JMPMON`... I'd be so tempted to make the comment on that one `JUMP TO MONITOR` or something... just to make it "symmetrically ridiculous" ;)
Solving those chicken and egg problems is a real challenge. Great solution. A second serial port would help there, one for the terminal and one for the punch reader.
hold up. how did the teletype know when to switch to the paper tape thing? I'd go back further but I'm kinda into this video now. Anyway I had a few CRT terminals with "aux" or "printer" ports on them, and there was a control code that redirected the serial data to it...
I have been following you for a while now. Thank you for showing the Altair in its glory. There is not a single video that I dont come back with more knowledge and more amazed of how we use to do computing. Love seeing the 8800 running assembler and the trouble shooting. Keep the videos coming and thank you again.
I've wondered about how to do this very thing, and, somehow, a simple switchbox (which I used in school in the 80's for printing, even!) just never occurred to me! Neat!
I really enjoy your videos!
Very interesting to see the work-arounds that one can come up with :)
Cool Video for a Nerd like me. I recently bought a little emulator for the Altair. It was a cool little machine. And you could understand every bit of it.
The only paper tapes I ever had were rather short BASIC programs and I could nearly hold the whole tape in outstretched arms. That huge pile of fettuccine on the floor looks like our fantasy "real program". But I bet having to roll it all back up again get's old pretty quickly.
I love that your label on `JMP MON` is `JMPMON`... I'd be so tempted to make the comment on that one `JUMP TO MONITOR` or something... just to make it "symmetrically ridiculous" ;)
Solving those chicken and egg problems is a real challenge. Great solution. A second serial port would help there, one for the terminal and one for the punch reader.
That video will be released in a couple of weeks using the 68-UIO expansion board
I used to have that exact punch reader. Great unit!
hold up. how did the teletype know when to switch to the paper tape thing? I'd go back further but I'm kinda into this video now. Anyway I had a few CRT terminals with "aux" or "printer" ports on them, and there was a control code that redirected the serial data to it...
Thanks for the video.
There is one of these on eBay now for $4260!
What do these normally sell for?
Weird that that paper tape reader doesn't have a terminal port so you wouldn't need an external switch.
Did you make the Altair 680 clone?
the paper tape looks fragile it would be very annoying if it snaps or tears or gets crumpled up .
I think you misspelled "HELLORLD!" :)