NAME |
ALTAIR 8800 |
MANUFACTURER |
MITS |
TYPE |
Professional Computer |
ORIGIN |
U.S.A. |
YEAR |
1975 |
KEYBOARD |
No keyboard, but switches on front panel. |
CPU |
Intel 8080A (rarely 8080) |
SPEED |
2 MHz (each instruction takes 4 clock cycles) |
RAM |
256 bytes (you had to buy this memory board) |
ROM |
None |
TEXT MODES |
None (optional 64 x 12 card) |
GRAPHIC MODES |
None |
SIZE / WEIGHT |
Unknown |
I/O PORTS |
Unknown |
POWER SUPPLY |
Unknown |
PRICE |
$595 |
MITS Altair 8800
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Altair 8800 |
The ALTAIR 8800 had one input port (I/O address 254), which was the left hand 8 address switches, and one output port
(I/O address 255), which has eight of the LEDS (while the CPU was in run mode). The input port was called the "
Sense Switches".
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