The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics and was sold by … See more

Altair BASIC
Ed Roberts received a letter from Traf-O-Data asking whether he would be interested in buying what would eventually be the BASIC programming language for the machine. He called the company and reached a private … See more

Books
• Solomon, Les (September 1984). "Solomon's Memory". In Ditlea, Steve (ed.). See more

While serving at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III decided to use their electronics background to produce small kits for See more

In the first design of the Altair, the parts needed to make a complete machine would not fit on a single motherboard, and the machine consisted of four boards stacked on top of each other with stand-offs. Another problem facing Roberts was that the parts … See more

• SIMH emulates Altair 8800 with both 8080 and Z80.
• IMSAI 8080
• Legacy8080 [ja] See more

• "Altair 8800". New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
• MITS Altair 8800 exhibit at old-computers.com's virtual computer museum See more