Ontario Looking for an Altair 8800

[Construct0]

I'm sure there's lots of others out there wanting one of these, but I thought I'd throw my hat in.

If you are in the US, I have a relative who can receive delivery in Chicago, so the sale can be left domestic.

Any condition is acceptable, I'm looking for a project.

 

[twolazy]

Looking nowadays around 2500-3000 USD starting prices, for a basket case...

 

[VERAULT]

Has the price gone down that much? I though an as-is would fetch $4500 to $5000

 

[twolazy]

That is if you don't mind an Altair 8800b... An original unit is MUCH more.

Here's a good example...

Vintage Altair 8800B microcomputer with boards needs work | eBay

This example looks to be in the middle of a repair. It looks like the previous owner tried to replace the bridge rectifier and never finished the job. It includes a MITs CPU board, PROM board and an I/O board.

www.ebay.com

 

[VERAULT]

When I was still looking for an S-100 system (ANY SYSTEM!) That would have been more than fine. You can make he claim I have a MITS Altair and youd be correct.
same with an Imsai.

I mean I get why the OP wants one. I want one too. But Im not gonna pay. I am happy with my Cromemco and it looks beautiful. I have seen a few pretty generic S-100 systems at the swap meet and honestly they are just as good for the money.

 

[Hugo Holden]

In my view the best S-100 computer has to be the SOL-20. Because you get a VDM-1 video card effectively built into it, as well as the Tape system CUTs on its mobo (two less cards you need) and it has a wonderful keyboard, serial interface and the Solos monitor on the personality sub- board and it is easily under half the price of an Altair. The only disadvantage might be the limited number of card slots, but at least you don't need the video and the tape cards so that helps make up for that. Almost twice as much hardware at half the cost making it x4 more attractive.

 

[alank2]

There is always building one of Mike's 8800C's if you have any interest in that.