Hackaday5y
Prolific Videos Show Altair 8800 Recreation
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 ...
Hackaday5y
Altair 8800 Again Project
That turned out to be the first of a multipart series on his Altair 8800 Again simulator. The front panel appears to be laser cut and in some future video episodes, we expect to see him simulate ...
What happened at the Homebrew Computer Club 50 years ago: Apple was born, and a revolution began
In the club's garage in Menlo Park, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak showed off the first Apple computer. Bill Gates was ...
Computer historian from Clay County lists landmark devices: Perhaps you had one?
MITS Altair 8800 (first commercially successful, mass-produced personal computer), 1975 IMSAI 8080 (first clone computer, of ...
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A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER: MICRO
Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover, January 1975. It is hailed as the first "personal" computer. Thousands of orders for the 8800 rescue MITS from bankruptcy.