and a homebrew EPROM board (using 1702s, no less). I have to confess, I’ve always wanted a real Altair — but probably won’t ever get one. But if I were going to build one, this would be the ...

If you aren’t old enough to remember when computers had front panels, as [Patrick Jackson] found out after he built a replica Altair 8800 ... available to the FPGA board it lived on.