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 ...

One of the most consequential developments in the history of computing happened 50 years ago. It set Apple on course to ...

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 ...

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Gates and Allen thought that the Altair 8800 was a sign that the “PC revolution was imminent,” as Gates puts it. They decided to create a version of BASIC that can run on the Altair–BASIC ...

An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. Image: Monica Nickelsburg/ A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit.

Microsoft began with a magazine cover. In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home computer by a ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. Monica Nickelsburg / An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.