Although the code that Gates printed out on a teletype machine may look crude compared to what's powering today's artificial ...

Want to see the original source code that started Microsoft? Bill Gates is sharing it.On Wednesday, the Microsoft co-founder ...

Roberts called his computer the Altair 8800 and offered it as a kit ... It was the very first personal computer to be produced in fairly high quantity. The larger computer companies were busy ...

By today’s standards, these are hardly computers. Even an 8-bit Arduino can outperform these old machines. As much disparity as there is between an Altair 8800 and a modern personal computer ...

MITS Altair 8800 (first commercially successful, mass-produced personal computer), 1975 IMSAI 8080 (first clone computer, of ...

Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover, January 1975. It is hailed as the first "personal" computer. Thousands of orders for the 8800 rescue MITS from bankruptcy.

If you read about the history of personal computing ... with the Intel 8080. The computer came out scant months after the introduction of the famous Altair 8800. Although the Altair is often ...

However, I was most excited about the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer ... You can type stuff on it. Personal computer keyboards and video screens were not well established then.

Personal computers including the Altair 8800 had existed for a few years at the time of his remark and Olsen himself owned a computer at home. The same year as his "prediction" brought a series of ...