MITS Waveform Generator & Frequency Counter Docs?

May 27, 2004 5 Replies

I picked this item up at a fleamarket. Photos at;



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Can anyone direct me to resources for documents regarding this piece of equipment (user manual, schematic, etc.)? TIA



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Interesting

Apparently made by MITS the same people that brought us the Alitair 8080 computer.

MITS = Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems a part time business started by an Air Force officer. He is the guy that a dropout from MIT that had a 4K BASIC he wrote on a PDP-8 went to see, the rest is history.

Last I heard the owner of this company had retired to ? Alabama and was practicing medicene at a rural clinic.

Have no clue where you might find schematics or docs. Hugh Still have two Altair 8080's one still works. I use a P-4 for a terminal.

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Sorry got the numbers wrong

Altair 8080

And the owner of MITS was Ed Roberts.

Hugh

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There's a good chance that it was a construction project in Popular Electronics (or maybe Radio-Electronics) in the late 1960's or early

1970's. Both magazines were indexed in The Readers Guide to Periodic Literature (or something like that). I remember they had an electronic desk calculator project before they had the computers.

Mark Zenier snipped-for-privacy@eskimo.com Washington State resident

Mark,

Possibly a kit... I was a long time subscriber to PE and don't recall (barring 'senior moments') any kit form MITS equipment - but hey, ya never know. I'll try to pursue that angle at the library. Thanks for the reply!

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