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Home / Computers / Hardware / Historical / Altair 8800
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- Altair - Brief article on the history of the Altair 8800.
www.cis.usouthal.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/1975malt.htm
- Ed Roberts Interview - Historically Brewed magazine.
exo.com/~wts/mits0011.HTM
- Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems - MITS - Roberts, H. Edward, American Air Force officer who, along with three friends, founded the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), which thrived when in 1971 it began producing the large scale integrated calculator kit in the U.S. The company soon introduced the Altair, an affordable computer kit that uncovered a huge market for microcomputers. Roberts, is now a small town medical doctor.
www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/mits.html
- MITS Altair 8800 - Considered by many to be the first microcomputer, the MITS altair 8800 was based on a 2 MHz Intel 8080 with 256 bytes standard RAM and interfaced with the user through the octal front panel switches. This unit has an 8" floppy disk drive.
wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/mits_altair_8800.html
- MITS/Pertec Altair 8800/680b/MITS 300 - Icom, Vector Graphic , Tarbell, PMMI, or other products that are not Altair or MITS products, it is because the systems were often mixed. These companies and components are an integral part of the Altair story.
exo.com/~wts/wts10005.HTM
- The First PCs - Kenbak-1; Micral; and Altair 8800.
www.angelfire.com/pq/pcmuseum/altair1.html
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