Browse around eBay for an original Altair 8800 and you quickly find that the price range is in the thousands of dollars. If you are a collector and have some money in your pocket maybe that’s okay.

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn’t offer much, but it’s the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company — with the big name of Micro ...

Altair 8800 - Video # 7.1 - Loading 4K BASIC with a Teletype - YouTube The movie contributor deramp5113 seems to have taken a demonstration movie six months ago, but at that time Teletype terminal ...

The Altair 8800 was invented on December 19, 1974, so by 1979, it was almost vintage. I was a very, very broke freshman on summer break.

altair 8800. The most powerful minicomputer project ever presented—can be built for under $400." "The era of the computer in every home—a favorite topic among science fiction writers—has ...

The dichotomy between the Altair with its brazen LEDs flickering away madly and the overtly 1980’s Model 102 definitely stood out on the show floor, and it seemed the chair in front of the Tandy ...

And it isn’t even the real thing! A mere simulacrum, dissasembled, impertinently awaiting construction by us, its new slaves, the MITS Altair 8800 replica kit fetches lofty prices on eBay. Power ...

Altair 8800 Kit By Chris Davies Updated: Feb. 13, 2019 10:27 am EST I'm shamefully ignorant of early computers, although I can admire with an LED-appreciationists' eye the banks of flickering ...

Altair 8800 Microcomputer National Museum of American History. Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions Apply ... (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called ...

Roberts was best known for developing and marketing the MITS Altair 8800 in the 1970s. The build-it-yourself kit was operated by switches and had no display screen initially, ...

Build Your Own Altair 8800 Personal Computer The MITS Altair 8800 was the first commercially successful personal computer.Created by Ed Roberts in 1974, it was purchased by the thousands via mail ...

Altair 8800 Microcomputer National Museum of American History. Click to open image viewer. Altair 8800 Personal Computer with Monitor and Keyboard CC0 Usage Conditions Apply Click for more information ...