Yeah, I agree that these kits whet the appetite for the hobby. I built the Briel Mini Altair and it worked great. It a shame that all the Briel projects got abandoned except the Replica 1. I also built the MicroKIM and the PockeTerm and they all worked great. I think the Altair Clone is a great way to experience Altair operation. The Clone and Altair 8800c are available from Mike Douglas (Deramp) While the 8800c is not a kit, Mike sells the case, bare front panel & bus interface boards so you can the source the rest of the parts yourself. It looks and works just like the real thing. Regards, Jeff On Thu, May 23, 2019, 6:32 PM corey cohen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
This is why we are looking at things like the PiDP, replica-1, Kim-uno and Briel Altair. All of these replace major components or just about all components with modern micro controllers or ICs but provide the vintage software experience.
I call these “work-alikes” the gateway drugs into our hobby. It’s the first step many newbies take after they download an emulator.
Cheers, Corey
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