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- Altair
Brief article on the history of the Altair
8800.
- Ed
Roberts Interview
Historically Brewed magazine.
- The
First PCs
Kenbak-1; Micral; and Altair 8800.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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