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 ...

If you aren’t old enough to remember when computers had front panels, as [Patrick Jackson] found out after he built a replica Altair 8800, their operation can be a bit inscrutable. After ...

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 ...

Personal computers including the Altair 8800 had existed for a few years at the time of his remark and Olsen himself owned a computer at home. The same year as his "prediction" brought a series of ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

(Bloomberg) -- Siemens AG is in talks about a potential deal to acquire software maker Altair Engineering Inc., people familiar with the matter said, in what would be its largest-ever acquisition.