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1974
I remember it very clearly as I spent the first half of 1975 helping my senior year High School electronics instructor assemble one. Unfortunately I never got a chance to see if it ran or not as I graduated and left for College before we were able to finish assembling the kit.
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∙ 6y agoThe Altair 8800 developed by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1975 was the first personal home computer.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the Altair BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 and were employed by MITS before eventually founding their own company then called Micro-Soft.
Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) developed the Altair 8800 in 1974/75 based on the Intel 8080 8 bit processor. MITS was located in Albuquerque. Ed Roberts and Bill Yates were the prototyping engineers. Bill Gates and Paul Allen were key vendors as they developed the BASIC language for use in the Altair. Their company, Microsoft, emerged from that effort.
You can find a more thorough treatment of MITS and the Altair in Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
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∙ 13y agoIt is a microcomputer design. It was invented/designed by Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims III
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∙ 8y agoMITTS in Albuquerque, NM.
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∙ 13y agofirst microcomputer
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∙ 15y agoEd Roberts
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How much was the Altair 8800?
The altair 8800 was sold for US$395 as a kit and US$495 as assembled.
When was the altair 8800 invented?
august 30,1975
When was the Altair 8800 made?
it was made in 1975
What Intel chip was used in the Altair?
ALTAIR 8800 was used first. Answered by Pradip, Hyderabad
What was the altair 8800 and who was the inventor?
An assassin invented by Abstergo Industries.
What city was the altair computer invented in?
The MITS Altair 8800 was designed in Albuquerque, NM. I wouldn't say it was invented!
What was the name of the first computer made by Ed Roberts?
The Altair 8800.
What computer built in 1975 was named after an episode of Star Trek?
Altair 8800
What was the main complaint about the Altair 8800 personal computer?
Noise on the unterminated backplane signals.
Which year did Bill Gates invent a computer?
Never, he dropped out from Harvard, moved to NM, and wrote Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 kit.
Who were the 2 men who invented the 8080 microprocessor based Altair in 1975?
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.
What was the first home computer ever made?
The first personal home computer was the Altair 8800 which was produced in 1975 by Ed Roberts. The Altair 8800 could run thousands of CP/M software titles and also allow the user to play games such as Colossal Cave Adventure, Pong, Star Trek, and Zork. A user could also use the Altair 8800 to create spreadsheets, databases, and word processing documents.
