That turned out to be the first of a multipart series on his Altair 8800 Again simulator. The front panel appears to be laser cut and in some future video episodes, we expect to see him simulate ...

At the time, this was a huge deal. Some even argue that it made an AM radio one of the first I/O devices for use with the Altair 8800. At demonstration of the code at a meeting of the Homebrew ...

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft and severed as the company's CEO from 1975 to 2000. A look back at five things you might not ...

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 ...

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.

This year, seven of the top 15 wealthiest people have engineering or technical backgrounds. Discover how these innovators ...

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 ...

When the Altair 8800 came on the scene in 1975, inventor Ed Roberts at its introduction coined the term “personal computer.” Apple, of course, came to market a few years later. But it wasn’t ...

Then there was the Altair 8800, a DIY computer popular among hobbyists. In fact, it was the Altair from which Jobs and Woz ...

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Siemens SIE3.28%increase; green up pointing triangle is acquiring Altair ALTR 0.51%increase; green up pointing triangle Engineering in an equity deal that values the software and technology ...