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  MITS Altair 680 16K RAM by Bill Degnan - 04/15/2013 11:31
MITS Altair 680 16K Static RAM card.
Close up of the MITS Altair 680 16K Static RAM card.


Front (before restoration)
Rear (before restoration)

So far I have de-soldered a bad socket. Most of the components will need to be replaced. More to come.

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  Scan of 16K RAM card by Bill Degnan - 01/09/2014 11:31
MITS Altair 680 16K Static RAM card.
Front scan MITS Altair 680 16K Static RAM card.


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  MITS 680 16K RAM installed by Bill Degnan - 01/23/2014 11:35
This is a second MITS Altair 680b 16K RAM card. I took parts from the first card and installed them into this card. I still have the first 16K RAM card to be used for parts.


And here is a view of the ACIA monitor. I ran a few simple memory tests to verify that 16K was detected and available to the computer. I then jumped to FC00 to start VTL-2 BASIC to make sure that still worked.




More photos of this RAM and other 680b cards


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