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.
The altair 8800 was sold for US$395 as a kit and US$495 as assembled.
august 30,1975
it was made in 1975
The Altair 8800 was released in 1975 by MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems).
ALTAIR 8800 was used first. Answered by Pradip, Hyderabad
An assassin invented by Abstergo Industries.
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.