The Altair 8800 Clone is a modern, ... It was also prehistoric in performance with 64 K of RAM and a CPU running at 2 MHz. Then there was the fact that assembling the kit was a long, ...

That turned out to be the first of a multipart series on his Altair 8800 Again simulator. ... The middle ground will use an Arduino or some other small CPU to simulate the 8080 CPU.

Its main CPU was about the size of a microwave oven. It had a 12-bit word size, and the maximum memory (core memory, physical tiny donuts) ... I decided to build an Altair 8800.

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.In my last few posts, I talked about the ...

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics introduced the Altair 8800 and hit the newsstands in December of 1974, so it is only natural that around the New Year people start thinking about the o… ...

Until I built my first Altair 8800, ... Intel 8080; then they wrote an interpreter that translated BASIC code dynamically and interactively into 8080 code the processor could run. ...

As the story goes, Steve Wozniak saw the Altair 8800 running Gates’ BASIC at a meeting of the Homebrew Electronics Club.However, the Intel chip was too expensive, so he wrote a new version of ...

Altair (Nasdaq: ALTR), a global leader in computational intelligence, announced that several products from the Altair® HyperWorks® design and simulation platform now support NVIDIA Grace CPU and ...

The S-100 bus was used by the Altair 8800 computer that had a MITS 8080 CPU board. There wasn't much to the Altair, though. There was no screen, no keyboard, and no software.