When the Altair 8800 came out in January 1975, users could purchase a DIY kit for $397, which consisted of some parts and circuit boards. Users could also purchase assembled Altairs for $498.
Additional parts (such as memory boards) were typically purchased as upgrades in order to make the computer more usable. These upgrades could make the final cost of the computer upwards of $4000.
The altair 8800 was sold for US$395 as a kit and US$495 as assembled.
august 30,1975
it was made in 1975
ALTAIR 8800 was used first. Answered by Pradip, Hyderabad
An assassin invented by Abstergo Industries.
No one knows for sure, but by the end of August 1975, MITS claimed to have sold more than 5,000 Altair 8800s. Ed Roberts, who owned MITS, claimed to have sold more than 40,000 of the computers in total.
The MITS Altair 8800 was designed in Albuquerque, NM. I wouldn't say it was invented!
The Altair 8800.
Altair 8800
Noise on the unterminated backplane signals.
Never, he dropped out from Harvard, moved to NM, and wrote Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 kit.
The two men that designed the MITS Altair 8800 computer kit in 1975 were Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III. The Altair 8800 used the Intel 8080 as it CPU. Roberts and Forrest did not invent the 8080 - Intel did - they simply used the 8080 in their product.