Object Details Description This is a homemade keyboard for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 microprocessor, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS ...

BOULDER CREEK, Calif.--I have seen the world's first microcomputer, and it is not the Altair. For years, any serious discussions about the earliest microcomputers had to include the Altair 8800 ...

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn’t offer much, but it’s the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company — with the big name of Micro ...

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn’t offer much, but it’s the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company — with the big name of Micro ...

Quiz time, what was the first commercially available microcomputer? The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI? The Mark-8 kit? According to [The Byte Attic], it was actually the Q1, based … ...

The 3,000-foot Microcomputer Gallery is scheduled to open to the public in 2006 and will. Skip to main content. ... The Altair was put on the cover of Popular Electronics inJanuary 1975, ...

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.

Bob Powell, of Vashon Island, Wash., says he sold his first-generation MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer and several crates of related materials to Living Computers for $1 not long before it closed ...

His daughter named the new machine after the star Altair. It was the first microcomputer to sell in large numbers. In January 1975, a photograph of the Altair appeared on the cover of the magazine ...

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 ...