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Awesome, was it a built unit or kit?
either way do post pictures.

it's a lot of fun eh?

i hope you got the disk drive kit with it... adds another dimension

Congrats...

Tracking info is sent via paypal. Tracking was provided all the way to my office in Canada, so when it left the U.S. it was still being tracked. :) Pretty sure if you did not receive tracking info, then it may not have been sent yet... If you work out of a central office and do your travelling from ...

Wow, fancy with the Green and Blue L.E.D.s very nice.

I like it alot.

Welcome to the club. :) first off you might wish to get a 9 volt wall wart, the Briel Computers download section for the Altair 8800 micro has a manual with a parts list, so you know what size barrel on the 9 volt power adapter, any 2 amp wall wart should do that is a switching power supply wall war...

Any update on the update? did you get your kit yet?
if so do post pictures

Have you emailed Mr. Briel directly? He's very good at at responding.

When I purchased my kit in May, it was shipped out in a day or two from the day I ordered...
I got a notification from PayPal with tracking info etc.

i was wondering which bank of ram or page does the memory protect work with... I tried to use it in zero page ram with address switches all off, I turned on protect, but I was still able to deposit entries into memory. Just wondering how it's used, in real altair fashion.... I know that it outputs d...

Thank you!

Cheers!!!

crickets?

ok I was just wondering I think it would be cool

here is what i will print next...
it's 5 1/4" facade, and I will drill out the L.E.D. and insert a real one from behind.

Very cool.

I like the idea of different colours.

Cheers!

Hello, I just recently ordered a Altair 8800 micro kit. I was wondering if anyone could tell me what size the LED's are in millimeters. The kit I build, I would like a few custom features and LED's are the first thing I might alter. Thanks for any help. What kind of changes are you hoping to implem...

what are the pinouts? what kind of signals are you dealing with?
now you have my curiosity peeked

Cheers.

found this on thingeverse...

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:167541

it's a 5 1/4" floopy model, i can cut it up and just use the face of it...
it would look better.

(ok somewhat obsessed. )

Cheers.

i will post the result when done

Standard Serial? PS/2 is not standard serial, it has a clock, data, ground, +5 volts. Standard serial would have something like RX, TX, RTS, DTS and GND that sort of thing... :) if it is serial and has TX and ground line, then you could use it connected to the serial port assuming the voltage levels...