An Altair fitted out with those items might cost $4,000—the equivalent to the cheapest PDP-8 minicomputer, a reliable and established performer. Most purchasers found the kit was difficult to assemble ...

Roberts called his computer the Altair 8800 and offered it as a kit. It got a good press splash, featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine in January of 1975.

An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. (Monica Nickelsburg) A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit.

In any case, they agreed to announce the computer kit as "Popular Electrronics/MITS Altair 8800" on the cover of the magazine and discuss it in the lead article.

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An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit. An Altair was about the size of an ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. ... They offered to license the program to MITS, which could sell it along with the kits. MITS said yes.

An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.<br> Monica Nickelsburg A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit.

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit. An Altair was about the size of an apple crate, with no screen, just lights and ...