The Altair 8800 Clone is a modern, ... It was also prehistoric in performance with 64 K of RAM and a CPU running at 2 MHz. Then there was the fact that assembling the kit was a long, ...

That turned out to be the first of a multipart series on his Altair 8800 Again simulator. ... The middle ground will use an Arduino or some other small CPU to simulate the 8080 CPU.

Its main CPU was about the size of a microwave oven. It had a 12-bit word size, and the maximum memory (core memory, physical tiny donuts) ... I decided to build an Altair 8800.

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics introduced the Altair 8800 and hit the newsstands in December of 1974, so it is only natural that around the New Year people start thinking about the o… ...

Until I built my first Altair 8800, ... Intel 8080; then they wrote an interpreter that translated BASIC code dynamically and interactively into 8080 code the processor could run. ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.In my last few posts, I talked about the ...

So, be bought a repurposed Altair 680, little brother of the 8800, and set about stuffing it with an Intel Core i5-650 processor on a Mini-ITX motherboard with 4GB of RAM, 80GB of SSD and 500GB on ...

It was before my time, I must admit, but an Arduino enthusiast is resuscitating the old microcomputer. Thanks to Hackster.io for highlighting the work of one David Hansel. The idea came to his mind ...

The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...