MSI's new Claw A8 gaming handheld with its new AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme APU gets benchmarked, compared against the competition ...

One of the most consequential developments in the history of computing happened 50 years ago. It set Apple on course to ...

This was the predecessor to the Intel 8080 CPU that was used in the Altair 8800. The SCELBI-8H had a minimum 1K of RAM. The 8008 was capable of addressing 16Kb of memory and was the first in a series ...

In November 1975, the electronics engineer Robert M. (Bob) Marsh founded the Processor Technology company in Berkeley, California. He produced ROM, RAM, and I/O cards for Altair. Together with Leslie ...

In 1975, Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

In the early 1970s, he and Allen reached out to the creators of the Altair 8800, claiming they had already developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the computer's processor.

CAD for personal computers first emerged in the late 1970s. The first microcomputer (as they were then called) was 1975’s Altair 8800, which you had to solder together and then program by flipping ...

These, of course, benefitted from, well, software, such as Microsoft's Altair BASIC programming language for the Intel-powered Altair 8800 computer. I can see why Intel's troubles might bother ...

It ran Intel's 8088 CPU, which was clocked at a blistering 5 MHz. Yes, that's an M there, not a G. Also included was Microsoft's MS-DOS, 64KB of memory, and a floppy drive to read and write storage.

It supplied the original MITS Altair 8800's BASIC, and indeed The Register interviewed that version's co-author Monte Davidoff in 2001. Microsoft still offers Visual BASIC .NET 16.9 today. Microsoft ...

The Altair 8800 is so powerful that it can handle many programs simultaneously." This bombastic introduction was followed by a text by ghostwriter David Bunnell, who explained to readers (PDF, pp ...