Owning a piece of computer history can be expensive and not much fun. You can buy a vintage MITS Altair 8800, one of the world’s first successful desktop computers, on eBay, but a good one will ...

This is a homemade keyboard for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 microprocessor, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and ...

Ed Roberts, developer of MITS Altair 8800 computer, dies at 68. By Associated Press. ... Roberts was best known for developing and marketing the MITS Altair 8800 in the 1970s.

It was the computer that two kids, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, quit college for, in order to write a BASIC interpreter. The Altair 8800 was invented on December 19, 1974, so by 1979, it was almost ...

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 ...

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It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Building my own Altair 8800 . Until I built my first Altair 8800, I lived in my engineering school's computer center, typing code into our PDP-10 until the wee hours of the night (and often ...

The initial meeting was held just a few months after the announcement of the Altair 8800 computer kit, which came with Microsoft's BASIC interpreter. See Altair. Some Notable Members.

Altair 8800 Microcomputer American History Museum. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for ... (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called ...