Loading Altair 4K BASIC with a Teletype on the Altair 8800

deramp5113 · Demo · 9 min · 2013 · YouTube title: Altair 8800 - Video #7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype

Why it's here

Cited as a great demo of how early microcomputers were actually booted and operated.

What it covers

A demonstration of loading Altair 4K BASIC on an Altair 8800 clone, using a front-panel bootloader and an ASR-33 Teletype. It shows the full sequence of entering boot code, loading BASIC and running a program.