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by Bill Degnan - 03/31/2015 12:01 | |
Experience the sights and sounds of loading MITS Altair 680 BASIC from papertape. In 1976 the Altair 680 was designed to be run with an ASR 33 Teletype - which covered all of the I/O for the computer (other than front panel). With the Teletype one could save to papertape, load programs from papertape, type commands into the typewriter and view "screen" output to the printer. It takes about 35 minutes to load version 1.1 rev 3.2. MITS BASIC was written by Microsoft for the Altair 8800 and then ported to 6800 format for the 680b model.
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