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F   F O R      S A L E   E TECHNICAL MANUALS for MITS, Altair, Pertec, Icom, IMSAI, Processor Technology (Sol), Southwest Technical Products (SWTPC), and other early personal computer and calculator products
Now Available! MITS Altair firmware on 1702A EPROM! See the "Altair Firmware" section near the bottom of this list.
Altair computers were manufactured in Albuquerque by MITS, Inc., which was later acquired and dissolved by Pertec Computer Corporation (Pertec did the same thing to another of their acquisitions, Icom Microperipherals.  Remember Icom’s "Frugal Floppy"?).  Altairs have become valuable acquisitions among collectors of technical and data processing equipment because of their status as being the first to introduce affordable computing to the general public.  MITS produced them years before Apple and IBM PCs existed.  In conjunction with the Altair, MITS introduced the first personal computer magazine (“Computer Notes”), the first personal computing accounting software, and the first personal computer conventions (the World Altair Computer Convention).  Of course, Microsoft got their start at MITS, too, writing the first high-level language (BASIC) for the Altair.  Before the Altair, another MITS first was the manufacture and kitting of many models of electronic calculators.  They also manufactured many types of electronic test equipment and hobbyist products.
All of those devices have their greatest value if they are operable, and that's why I am making copies of technical manuals available.  Although the great majority of these manuals are for MITS components, I also have manuals from several other companies whose 1970s products worked with, or competed with, MITS products.  Most of my manuals include theory of operation, operating instructions, parts lists, and assembly sections. In all cases, I will supply copies of everything I have available.  Sections concerning kit assembly may be missing from a few, and additional “in-house” information may be included with some.   Several pages may have annotations and other markings on them. This is because some of them were actual MITS technicians' working manuals and drawings.  I will always supply copies of the cleanest documents available, but you should not consider marked-up drawings to be inferior; usually the annotations will supply valuable technical information that would otherwise be difficult to find.  All are “technical” manuals, including schematics where applicable, unless otherwise noted as “operator’s” or “user’s” manuals only.
Please remember that these are copies of original manuals.  Be aware that, with very few exceptions, MITS originally supplied manuals that were loose-leaf photocopies of their in-house master documents.  There were very few offset-printed publications shipped.  Thus, there is usually little or no apparent difference between an "original" MITS document and my copies.  No matter what form the original is in, though, my copies are as close in appearance to them as possible.  (The page counts listed for the manuals are approximate).
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Manuals For MITS/Altair boards
Product ID	Description	Total Manual Pages	Sche- matic Pages	Price	Note*
88-16MCD	16K Dynamic RAM board	77	5	$23.00
88-16MCS     (88-16K)	16K Static RAM board	42	6	$13.00
88-1K