The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics company called MITS, was a groundbreaking personal computer kit that promised to bring computing power to hobbyists. When Paul [Allen] and I saw that ...

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 ...

having learned like many of his era by building Heath-Kit projects. This made it natural for him to be interested in, and subsequently to build, the predecessor of the modern PC, the Altair 8800 ...

Most people know that in 1975, Popular Electronics ran articles about the Altair 8800 and launched the personal ... The Mark 8 wasn’t actually a kit. You could buy the PC boards, but you had ...

Then, of course, the kit computer shows up, and we finally have to get going, or we feel like we’ll be left behind. WSD: ...

came the Altair 8800. It was made by a company called MITS, sold as a kit, and programmed by punch cards. It looked like a Raspberry Pi project, only it was the size of an apple crate. But Paul ...

The duo's journey was ignited by a pivotal moment—a magazine cover featuring the Altair 8800. This groundbreaking personal computer kit symbolized the dawn of the PC revolution. Gates recounts how he ...

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine featured an Altair 8800 on its cover. The device, created by a small company, MITS, was, according to Gates, a groundbreaking personal computer ...

For advanced astrophotographers, the Altair Hypercam 26C APS-C Colour TEC is a reliable camera that should be good for the long haul; nothing will make it obsolete anytime soon. It has the ...

Gates and Allen were pitching an interpreter that would run code written in BASIC on the Altair 8800. The problem was that when they made their pitch to MITS, they had not yet developed a BASIC ...