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

Feature request: Could you consider adding support or partial compatibility with the Altair 8800 architecture? I know it’s a niche request — okay, super niche — but it’d be amazing (and hilarious) to ...

The MITS Altair 8800, one of the first "microcomputers" ever made available to hobbyists in 1975, is shown in this undated handout photo released to the media on Wednesday, June 25, 2008.

Altair Basic was developed by Gates, fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and programmer Monte Davidoff. The trio reportedly coded “day and night for two months” in 1975.

Allen had a lightbulb moment that would change their lives — and ours — when he spotted an ad on the cover of Popular Electronics. It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800.

Then, in 1974, Roberts introduced the Altair 8800 through an article in Popular Electronics. Roberts and the magazine editors were offering regular people the opportunity to own and use a computer.

Microsoft: Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language that had been developed in 1964 at Dartmouth College, but they still had to figure out a way to make ...

Gates and Allen thought that the Altair 8800 was a sign that the “PC revolution was imminent,” as Gates puts it. They decided to create a version of BASIC that can run on the Altair–BASIC ...

Describing Microsoft's 50th anniversary as "bittersweet," Gates said it still feels like yesterday when he and Allen wrote the Altair BASIC code on a PDP-10 mainframe in Harvard's computer lab.

Alan Truly / Digital Trends The Expression Photo XP-8800 is tiny for an all-in-one, with a footprint of 13.7 by 13.4 inches and standing just 5.6 inches tall.

David Bunnell, the author of the Popular Electronics article on the Altair 8800 and organizer of the World Altair Computer Convention, later wrote of the PC revolution: "For those of us who have ...

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