Altair 8800
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The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer introduced in 1974 by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems based on the Intel 8080 CPU. It was the first commercially successful personal computer. Interest i
Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch floppy disk system
This "Tracking Light for Model Rockets" project appeared in the September 1969 issue of Model Rocketry and was the first kit sold by MITS.
January 1975 Popular Electronics with the Altair 8800 computer. This issue was released to newsstands on December 19, 1974, a week before Christmas.
A kit-built Altair 8800 computer with the popular Model 33 ASR (Automatic Send and Receive) Teletype as terminal
Altair BASIC
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Altair BASIC is a discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 and subsequent S-100 bus computers. It was Microsoft's first product, distributed by MITS
Altair 8800
…Altair became a de facto standard in the form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC. While serving at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III decided…
The title page of the assembly language code that produced Altair BASIC
Altair 8K BASIC on paper tape