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Old 04-16-2007, 04:25 AM
neptunium neptunium is offline
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I know that there where Altair floppy drives. Do you have to have an offical, 1970's Altair drive? Or will any legacy floppy do? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Old 04-16-2007, 05:23 AM
Grant Stockly Grant Stockly is offline
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I'm surprised that you brought this up! I JUST logged on to add in pictures of an Altair booting CP/M off of a 3.5" disk. : )

The BEST disk drive solution for an Altair is the original MITS drive and electronics. This solution would be VERY expensive as a kit. The drives are close to $800, then the case, and the 4 LARGE PCBs. It would be more expensive than the Altair kit! The reason I say its the best solution for a disk drive is because it can boot MITS Basic and other MITS software.

I've been talking with someone about Altair disk solutions. He has a 3.5" disk drive connected to his Altair using a Tarbell disk drive controller board.

This solution would allow 8", 5.25", and 3.5" disks to be connected to an Altair to run CP/M. There are basics written for CP/M.

How many people would be interested in a card like this? Of course by the time I offered the disk drive card I would also have memory and terminal cards!

Here are some pictures:



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Old 04-16-2007, 08:32 PM
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I'd DEFINELY get that if you made one. Although, I need $1499 first! Was there a tape version of CP/M by chance? Oh! The original floppy was basicly another computer right?

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Old 12-09-2007, 02:17 AM
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So other than lucking out and getting ones hands on a completely working genuine Altair floppy drive peripheral, what is the second best option?
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Old 04-04-2008, 05:02 PM
marty marty is offline
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Talking tarbell to 3.5"

Hi All;
Does Anyone have the connections between the Tarbel controller and a 3.5" drive. I see the picture above , But it is not perfectly clear !!!!
THANK YOU, Marty
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