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. The day the magazine came ...

The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI? The Mark-8 kit? According to [The Byte Attic], it was actually the Q1, based on the Intel 8008 processor. The first Q1 microcomputer was ...

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 ...

So it’s hardly a surprise that in 1977, seeing the success of early home computers like the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080, Heathkit decided to join the fray with a computer kit of their own.

Bill Gates is reflecting on Microsoft's 50th anniversary — and sharing the company's original source code (as well as the story behind it) ...

It featured a cover photo of the Altair 8800 microcomputer designed by MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), which inspired Gates to dabble in computer programming and software ...

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 ...

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 apple ...