Hackaday13y
Recreating The First PC
why not replicate the first personal computer? After discovering the Arduino, [Mark] realized recreating really old computers would be a fun project. An Altair 8800 was on the table, but the sheer ...
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 ...
Hackaday5y
Altair 8800 Again Project
That turned out to be the first ... on a PC. The use of the LED strips and the laser cutter make this a lot easier than most other builds we’ve seen. We always think about the Altair around ...
PBS7y
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.
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 ...
Design Engineering13d
The highs and lows of CAD since the 1970s
CAD for personal computers first emerged in the late 1970s. The first microcomputer (as they were then called) was 1975’s ...