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Wow ... the man who invented it, Ed Roberts, had quite the life:<pre><code> • Air Force enlisted • Air Force comissioned • Electrical Engineer • Computer inventor • "Gentleman" farmer • Medical doctor </code></pre> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computer_engineer)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Roberts_(computer_engineer)</a>

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shakna9 天前

I was completely distracted by the magazine cover. The calculator being advertised there, and the wording, caught my attention.The magazine issued is available here [0].Apparently, it really was wiring up an entire calculator.> ... Start assembly by installing and soldering into place the fixed resistors. Then proceed to installing the three electrolytic capacitors, the diodes, and the transistors, taking care to observe proper polarity and basing. Mount the transistors close to the board’s surface...[0] <a href="https://archive.org/details/197501PopularElectronics" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/197501PopularElectronics</a>

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igtztorrero9 天前

The Altair didn’t survive for very long, but essentially being responsible for the creation of Microsoft is a pretty Big Deal.Bill Gates: "Popular Electronics" magazine cover of January 1975 change my life"Paul Allen write the simulator on Harvard PDP-10, Bill Gates write main code of Basic, Monte Davidoff write Math package. They coded day and night during 2 months.Micro-Soft was born.

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embedded_hiker9 天前

My school library ( 6th - 8th grades ) had this magazine, and they had a 9-week class on programming in BASIC using a 110 bps teletype connected to an HP2000C that was shared by several school districts. That was my start in all of this. I didn't get my own computer until the C64 price dropped to $200 in 1983.

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danbruc9 天前

Cost the equivalent of $2359 back then, right now you can get a few on eBay for around $5000. Or you can get a mini replica kit for $150. [1][1] <a href="https://altairmini.com/en/home" rel="nofollow">https://altairmini.com/en/home</a>

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CarVac8 天前

My dad has an IMSAI 8080 which is a neat piece of hardware. It still works, though a few LEDs failed.Unfortunately for him, in university one of his professors advised him not to go into computers for a career...

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jodydonetti8 天前

Olivetti P101 (1965)<a href="https://www.fondazioneadrianolivetti.it/en/p101-cecam/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fondazioneadrianolivetti.it/en/p101-cecam/</a>

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musicale7 天前

There seem to be many (!) emulators for it.<a href="https://www.s2js.com/altair/" rel="nofollow">https://www.s2js.com/altair/</a><a href="http://altair32.classiccmp.org" rel="nofollow">http://altair32.classiccmp.org</a><a href="https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/ALTAIR/altair.txt">https://github.com/simh/simh/blob/master/ALTAIR/altair.txt</a><a href="https://github.com/njbigwig/AltairEmulator">https://github.com/njbigwig/AltairEmulator</a><a href="https://github.com/gloveboxes/AltairEverywhere">https://github.com/gloveboxes/AltairEverywhere</a>etc.Of course you can run CP/M on it, but then it works like any other CP/M machine (and probably less conveniently than CP/M emulators which are integrated with the underlying host filesystem.)

dcassett8 天前

The article didn't mention the Mark-8 "kit" featured in the July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics [1]. My dad built the Mark-8 that year and showed me how he could play the Star-Spangled Banner on the AM radio by taking advantage of the RFI.[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-8" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark-8</a>

mrcwinn8 天前

For those interested in Ed Roberts, refer to Robert Cringely's "Triumph of the Nerds," in particular Volume 1.

oldnetguy8 天前

The Kenbak 1 is the first personal computer<a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/297" rel="nofollow">https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computer...</a>

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downut8 天前

I cannot find it but I think for about a decade the music cart rotation at WREK was powered by a student built automation system on an Altair. Don't remember any faults in the years I was around it.(I was a music director at WREK in the early '80s)

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berlinbrowndev9 天前

Cool I always thought the first PCs were like the TRS or Commodore 64 computers.

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vondur8 天前

I had one from my father in law. Donated it a local university where they had it displayed in the lobby for quite some time.