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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1975, an assembled Altair 8800 Computer was selling for $621 and $439 for an unassembled version. Sourced right, your clone would be under 50 bucks. Not bad.

ALTAIR 8800. The most powerful minicomputer project ever presented—can be built for under $400." "The era of the computer in every home—a favorite topic among science fiction writers—has ...

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.

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died at age 68.

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. At its heart was the Intel 8080 microprocessor, with the ...

If you're looking for a great Arduino kit project, you could do worse than building a replica of the influential MITS Altair 8800 personal computer. Skip to main content. Menu ...

Ed Roberts, the maker of the world’s first personal computer, died yesterday at the age of 68. Roberts created the Altair 8800, the first computer normal people could a) afford and b) use in ...

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 ...