ef1j95
Experienced Member
I recently had Altair BASIC VER 1.0 loading from paper tape on an IMSAI 8080. The binary came from Mike Douglas' DeRamp.com site. (Details at https://ef1j.org/wiki/index.php?n=Main.Version1). Here's a shot of the cold start routine messages:
My question is: Does anyone know if a copy of Altair BASIC Version 2 has ever been found or is available? This was the first version released by MITS (in both 4K and 8K) in late June or early July 1975. The other earlier Altair BASICs that are available currently are Version 3 (8K 3.0 on bitsavers, Mike has 3.2 for both 4K and 8K available on his site.) Those would have come out in the fall of 1975.
Eric
My question is: Does anyone know if a copy of Altair BASIC Version 2 has ever been found or is available? This was the first version released by MITS (in both 4K and 8K) in late June or early July 1975. The other earlier Altair BASICs that are available currently are Version 3 (8K 3.0 on bitsavers, Mike has 3.2 for both 4K and 8K available on his site.) Those would have come out in the fall of 1975.
Eric