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| 680b Mainframe | Motorola 6800 CPU with front panel switches |
| 680b Turnkey Mainframe | Motorola 6800 CPU with few front panel switches |
| 8800 Mainframe | The original "Hobbyist" Altair with round toggle switches. Intel 808O CPU . |
| 8800a Mainframe | The improved Altair with a better power supply. These probably have round toggle switches. Intel 8080 CPU. |
| The best looking Altair! An even better power supply with better looking front panel and new flat switches | |
| This model has few switches. Turnkey models are slightly more reliable than front panel models. | |
| 8800b-dm Mainframe | The 8800b-dm and 8800b-sm are versions of the Altair about which little is known, I've been told the were made for Foleys Department Store. These macnines are really nice, They are made out of an 8800b Turnkey. The 18-slot backplane was replaced with the 10-slot version from the Attache, to make room for 5.25-inch floppy diskette drives. The drives are full-height. The 8800b-dm has two drives. The two-board MITS floppy disk controller was modified from 32 hard-sector operation to 16-hard sector. |
| 8800b-sm Mainframe | The 8800b-dm and 8800b-sm are versions of the Altair about which little is known, I've been told the were made for Foleys Department Store. These macnines are really nice, They are made out of an 8800b Turnkey. The 18-slot backplane was replaced with the 10-slot version from the Attache, to make room for 5.25-inch floppy diskette drives. The 8800b-sm has a single drive. The two-board MITS floppy disk controller was modified from 32 hard-sector operation to 16-hard sector. |
| Attache | This model doesn't have the Altair name, however it really is an Altair. Improve the case, keyboard and video and it might be the best. |
| icom CP6800 | This is an Altair 680b Turnkey sold through the icom product line. |
| PCC 2000 (MITS 300/15) | The PCC 2000 was originaly called the MITS 300/15 and renamed to reflect the Pertec brand. This machine replaced the MITS Altair S-100 computers. |
| The Altair Business System. with a desk and Pertec floppy diskette drives. | |
| This Altair Business System with a Pertec hard disk |
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