Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met ...

A computer board for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 microprocessor, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry ...

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.

While the Heathkit H8 might have been designed as a contemporary to the Altair 8800, and used the same Intel 8080 CPU, it was by no means a clone like the IMSAI 8080. In perhaps the biggest ...

Roberts called his computer the Altair 8800 and offered it as a kit. It got a good press splash, featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine in January of 1975. The day the magazine came ...

However, there were others who were highly interested in the Altair 8800. Two other consequential people who also loved the Altair 8800 were Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs. However, Steve Wozniak ...

This is a Processor Technology VDM-1 simulator to be used in conjunction with my Altair 8800 Simulator project. After finishing the Dazzler display for the Altair Simulator I circled back to the ...

While thinking about ways to connect more hardware to my Altair 8800 Simulator I realized that the signals driving the DATA and ADDRESS LEDs, together with a few control signals (INP, OUT and WAIT), ...

If you had a lot of money and considerable building skill, you could make an Altair 8800 for about $395 ... to put those digits to use like an Elf clone. There isn’t an LED, however, except ...

Subscribe here: <a href="https://goo.gl/9FS8uFToday">https://goo.gl/9FS8uFToday</a> we take the personal computer for granted. Let's take a look at the interesting ...

Eddie Roberts created the first PC, the Altair 8800, in 1975. The first story about Altair was published in Popular Electronics in January 1975 and became a hit among the tech crowd. Remember that ...

Backup is an important part for anyone who uses a computer, but there are times when we need to clone the drive for various reasons. While there is no direct feature to clone a hard drive in the ...