Altair 8800 Clone - Table of Contents

ALTAIR 8800 CLONE COMPUTER
OPERATOR’S MANUAL
Version 1.8, September 2014
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ............................................................... 1
PART 1 – ALTAIR 8800 CLONE HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS ......................... 2
PART 2 – CONFIGURATION MONITOR ............................................. 4
A. Floppy Disk Menu ....................................................... 4
B. PROM Menu .............................................................. 6
C. Serial Port Menu ....................................................... 7
D. Load .BIN or .HEX File ................................................. 9
E. Administration Menu .................................................... 9
PART 3 – TERMINAL EMULATOR ................................................ 13
A. Overview .............................................................. 13
B. TeraTerm Terminal Emulator ............................................ 13
C. Installing TeraTerm ................................................... 13
D. Configuring TeraTerm .................................................. 13
E. Using TeraTerm ........................................................ 14
PART 4 – ALTAIR 8800 DEMONSTRATIONS ....................................... 15
A. Kill-the-Bit Front Panel Game ......................................... 15
B. Loading and Using 4K BASIC from Paper Tape............................ 17
C. Loading and Using 8K BASIC from Cassette.............................. 20
D. Loading and Using Disk BASIC from Floppy Disk......................... 24
E. Loading and Using Altair DOS .......................................... 26
F. Loading and Using CP/M ................................................ 29
G. Loading and Using Timesharing BASIC ................................... 31