Altair 8800
The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080A CPU. Sold as a kit through Popular Electronics magazine, the designers intended to sell only a few hundred to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold over ten times that many in the first month. Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution of the next few years: The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.
External links
- MITS Altair 8800 exhibit at OLD-COMPUTERS.COM's virtual computer museum
- Virtual Altair Museum
- The History of the MITS Altair
- Help getting your Altair up and running - plus software
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