4. a drawing entitled: MITS ALTAIR 8800 (/) cpu diagram. It is dated 8-7-76. 5. a blank order form for MITS. 6. A letter from Pam Holloma, Marketing Manager at MITS, dated April, 1976, indicating that ...

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This particular Altair was collected by the Smithsonian because it documents how hobbyists would outfit the machine with additional parts and components. The user added his own keyboard, monitor, disk ...

A handful of “personal computers” had been created, like the Altair 8800 in 1974, but their Byzantine operations were farcically difficult to use (the Altair, for its part, required flipping ...

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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 see this run on a ...

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Altair 8800 The first ever personal computer, the Altair 8800, was a commercial hit when it released in 1975.

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At his Gates Notes blog, Bill Gates commemorates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with a story about the company’s first code: The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a ...

But their idea to sell software would change that. It started with the Altair 8800, a build-it-yourself computer that Allen saw in Popular Electronics in 1975.