Altair kit up and running.

[TomL_12953]

Originally Posted by Geoff Harrison

I'm working on getting the machine to boot from an Altair 8" floppy drive. It's not there yet, but I do have it booting from a paper tape image of 8k basic.

Any chance you could make duplicate tapes for the members here or post an exact binary image of the 8K BASIC tape?

[Geoff Harrison]

Originally Posted by TomL_12953

Any chance you could make duplicate tapes for the members here or post an exact binary image of the 8K BASIC tape?

I don't have any way to read or punch physical tapes (someone outbid me recently on a nice ASR-33 that was for sale quite close to me ). You'll find a collection of basic tape images, including 8k basic, in Rich Cini's Altair emulator code (http://www.altair32.com/Altair32code.htm). Download the latest version of the emulator and look in the files subdir for *.tap. The bootloaders needed to load the tapes are in files/loaders/tape_lodr.

Geoff.

[TomL_12953]

(someone outbid me recently on a nice ASR-33 that was for sale quite close to me )

Oh oh! You don't live in southern Vermont, do you?