Old Altair (and related) Manuals
I have been inspired by Grant’s work here to start a preservation project of my own as an owner of both an Altair 8800A and an Altair 8800B. To that end I have the following manuals. I can scan these in as images with a decent resolution (300 to 9600 DPI). I am looking for community response to help me decide the scanning resolution desired and which manuals would be of greatest interest to be done first. My Altair 8800A manual does not include the assembly instructions. Grant’s information here is much better than mine. The other manuals are complete as far as I can tell.
IEEE Standard 696 Interface Devices
Describes the “S-100” bus vs. the Altair Bus
Altair 8800A Theory of Operation
Missing pages 1 & 2
Altair 8800 Operator’s Manual
Altair 88-DCDD (NEW)
Floppy Disk controller for 8” Single Side Hard Sectored diskettes (32 Sectors/Track, 76 Tracks)
Altair 88-DCDD (Original - the one with the "bus Bars")
Floppy Disk controller for 8” Single Side Hard Sectored diskettes (32 Sectors/Track, 76 Tracks)
Altair 88-2SIO
2 port serial card for 20ma Current Loop, TTL, or RS-232 Serial I/O
Altair 88-4PIO
4 port parallel I/O card for TTL devices
Altair 88-VI/RTC
Vector Interrupt / Real Time Clock
Altair 88-16MCS
16K Static Memory Card
Altair 8800B
Includes: MITS KITS Assembly Hints
Processor Technology 48KRA-1
48K Memory Card
Objective Design, Inc. Programmable Character Generator
For use with a Processor Technology VDM-1
Tarbell Floppy Disk Interface
Floppy Disk controller for 8” Single Side Soft Sectored diskettes (16 Sectors/Track, 76 Tracks) – for use with Altair FD Drives
Microsoft Basic-80 (version 5.0) for 8080 based systems
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