Building my own Altair 8800 . Until I built my first Altair 8800, I lived in my engineering school's computer center, typing code into our PDP-10 until the wee hours of the night (and often ...

The Altair 8800 Starts a PC Wave. 1974 The Altair 8800, the first PC (or microcomputer as it was known then), is available for sale on Dec. 19, from MITS, a company based in Ed Roberts ...

On December 19, 1974, the first successful personal computer went on sale. They called it the Altair 8800.. Popular Electronics magazine profiled the new PC in their January 1975 issue.

(Altair 8800) Posted: August 2, 2024 | Last updated: ... Micral computer to be the first) The Xerox Alto was the first actual PC by far but was never released.The Machine that Changed the World ...

For more information, see "Altair Minicomputer, Part I" by H. Edward Roberts and William Yates (Popular Electronics, January 1975), "The Altair story: early days at MITS" by Forrest M. Mims III ...

Ed Roberts, the maker of the world’s first personal computer, died yesterday at the age of 68. Roberts created the Altair 8800, the first computer normal people could a) afford and b) use in ...

You can buy a vintage MITS Altair 8800, one of the world’s first successful desktop computers, ... I really like the way the Altair 8800 clone can also have a PC motherboard inside.

Roberts was a founder of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), a retailer of electronics kits for hobbyists. There he designed the Altair 8800, arguably the first personal computer.

Extremely rare rack-mountable version of the Altair 8800. This 8800b is loaded (see below). Included is a homebrew, full-featured front panel.CPU number 749 INS 8080A0 C8080ASerial Number: 300 ...

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68. “We are deeply saddened by the ...

The Story That Launched the PC Industry The cover story proclaiming the launch of the Altair 8800 finally appeared in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. Inside, the headline promised ...