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 ...

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 ...

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.

Roberts called his computer the Altair 8800 and offered it as a kit ... It was the very first personal computer to be produced in fairly high quantity. The larger computer companies were busy ...

MITS Altair 8800 (first commercially successful, mass-produced personal computer), 1975 IMSAI 8080 (first clone computer, of ...