Altair 8800b

The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU. Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics and was sold by mail order through advertisements there, in Radio-Electronics, and in other hobbyist magazines. According to Harry Garland, the Altair 8800 was the product that catalyzed the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s. It was the first commercially successful personal computer. The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become 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.

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Category: MITS Altair
Make: MITS
Year: 1976
OS: N/A
Status: Not Working
Hardware: Desktop
Battery: Not applicable
Barcode: 32775905804877
Date Tested: 2019-07-22
Inventory #: X0032
Notes: Missing CPU, RAM cards. Power supply in unknown condition. Has not been powered on. Has Serial card.

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