half/byte6d ago

Throughout the last few days I reclaimed a happy place: My lab desk with the soldering iron.

Finally done: My Altair 8800 simulator by Adwater & Stir.

It feels very timely to bring my retro computing game back to the 1970's. The Altair came to market about two years earlier than me.

It's funny how this simulator intersects the old and the new. I'm connecting to the machine by telnet-ing onto the ESP8266 serial bridge thing.

The simulator runs on an Arduino Due, sporting a 32 Bit ARM CPU.

Show threadGregory Brown6d ago

@halfbyte Very, very cool.

If you have a more detailed writeup anywhere I'd love to check it out!

Gregory Brown6d ago
Show threadhalf/byte
@skillstopractice I'll point you to the website where I bought the kit, there's a ton of information there: https://adwaterandstir.com/altair/
The Altair 8800 Reborn

The Altair-Duino 8800 I was a child of 9 years old when the Altair 8800 was announced on the pages of Popular Electronics magazine in January of 1975. It captured my imagination - and I…

Adwater & Stir
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Show threadGregory Brown6d ago

@halfbyte Awesome!

I am doing Pi projects with my daughter and so we aren't at this level yet but love knowing what options are out there.

I am blown away at how thoughtful some of even the most basic kits are.