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	Altair 8800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution of the next few years: The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.
		She suggested Altair, which was the destination for the Starship Enterprise during an episode of Star Trek that she was watching.
		Programming the Altair was an extremely tedious process where one toggled the switches to positions corresponding to an 8080 opcode, then used a special switch to enter the code into the machine's memory, and then repeated this step until all the opcodes of a presumably complete and correct program was in place.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altair_8800 (1703 words)

	Altair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altair (α Aql / α Aquilae / Alpha Aquilae / Atair) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the nighttime sky, at visual magnitude 0.77.
		Altair is most notable for its extremely rapid rotation; by measuring the width of its spectral lines, it was determined that its equator does a complete rotation in about 6 1/2 hours (various other sources give 9 hours, or 10.4 hours).
		Altair, along with Beta Aquilae and Gamma Aquilae, form the well-known line of stars sometimes referred to as the shaft of Aquila.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altair (414 words)

	Info and facts on 'Altair' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Altair is a vertex (The highest point (of something)) of the Summer Triangle (additional info and facts about Summer Triangle).
		The name "Altair" is Arabic (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) for "the flyer", from the phrase نسر الطائر an-nasr aţ-ţā?ir "the flying eagle".
		As a result of its rapid rotation, Altair is oblate (A lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life) : its equatorial diameter is at least 14 percent greater than its polar diameter.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/altair.htm (247 words)

	Altair
		The star Altair (α Aquilae), in the Aquila constellation, is a white star of visual magnitude 0.77 located 17 light years away.
		Altair is most notable for its extremely rapid rotation; by measuring the width of its spectral lines, it was determined that its equator does a complete rotation in about 6 1/2 hours.
		Altair 8800 was one of the first personal computers, released in 1975.
	www.fastload.org /al/Altair.html (193 words)

	Altair
		The name Altair is derived from the Arabic for "The Flying Eagle." The star is located about 16.7 light-years (ly) away from our Sun, Sol, in the north central part (19:50:47.00+08:52:05.96, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Aquila, the Eagle.
		Based on Altair's abundance of iron, the star appears to be twice as enriched as Sol with elements heavier than hydrogen ("metallicity"), (Cayrel de Strobel et al, 1991, page 306).
		Altair has the New Suspected Variable designation NSV 24910 and is unusually bright for its spectral type and so may be becoming a subgiant star that is beginning to evolve off the main sequence, as it begins to fuse the increasing amounts of helium "ash" mixed with hydrogen at its core.
	www.solstation.com /stars/altair.htm (802 words)

	Altair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A class A hydrogen-fusing dwarf with a temperature of 7550 degrees Kelvin, Altair is the coolest of the three (with Vega and Deneb warmer at 9500 and 8400 respectively).
		Like the Sun and Vega, Altair is "on the main sequence" of stars, fusing hydrogen into helium in its core, its mass falling between 1.7 and 1.8 solar.
		Altair has also recently been identified as a subtle "Delta Scuti) variable, the brightest in the sky, the star flickering by a few thousandths of a magnitude with nine different periods that range from 50 minutes to 9 hours.
	www.astro.uiuc.edu /~kaler/sow/altair.html (534 words)

	Encyclopedia: Altair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Altair is: Altair, a star in the Aquila constellation Altair, Brazil MITS Altair 8800, one of the first hobbyist/home/personal microcomputers, the machine for which Microsoft made their first product – Altair BASIC This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the...
		Altair 8800 The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080A CPU.
		In science fiction, Altair is: Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Altair (2394 words)

	Altair.
		Altair has called "The King of Birds", "The Rising One", "The Star of Mighty Virtue", the "Armor-bearing Bird of Jove" (Jove is the Roman Jupiter or Greek Zeus), in this god's conflict with the giants.
		In astrology Altair was a mischief-maker, and portended danger from reptiles.
		The Eagle, soars to the heights, the bird of mighty Jupiter carrying thunderbolts, it is a bird worthy of Jupiter and the sky, which it furnishes with awful armaments.
	www.winshop.com.au /annew/Altair.html (838 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Altair Nanotechnologies Provides Shareholder Update (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Altair's in vitro and in vivo data suggests that RenaZorb binds with phosphate faster than lanthanum carbonate tetra hydrate, the active ingredient in Fosrenol, and is up to 30 percent more chemically efficient at binding phosphate per gram of drug.
		Altair estimates that there are over one million patients worldwide with ESRD that could benefit from phosphate control therapy.
		In general, Altair is, and expects to be in the immediate future, dependent upon funds generated from sales of securities, grants, testing agreements, and licensing agreements to fund its testing, development and ongoing operations.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=60228 (1740 words)

	Altair 8800 at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution that took off in the next few years.
		The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a standard in form of the S-100 bus.
		She suggested Altair, which was the destination for the Enterprise during an episode of Star Trek that she was watching.
	wiki.tatet.com /Altair_8800.html (1554 words)

	AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The ALTAIR, a high altitude version of the Predator B, was specifically designed as an unmanned platform for both scientific and commercial research missions that require endurance, reliability and increased payload capacity.
		Marked as the first remotely piloted aircraft that will meet aviation authority requirements for unmanned flights in National Air Space, ALTAIR is configured with a fault-tolerant dual-architecture flight control system and triple redundant avionics for increased reliability.
		ALTAIR is currently being integrated with an automated collision avoidance system as well as an air traffic control voice relay that will increase responsiveness and communication for flights in National Airspace.
	www.uav.com /products/Altair.html (127 words)

	Altair Engineering
		Altair initiated this process after 19 years of growth without outside investors.
		Altair will use the new funding to accelerate growth and capital expansion, increase technology investments and secure additional liquidity as needed to support future corporate initiatives.
		Additionally, Altair will leverage the new investment to expand into new markets, both within North America and other key geographic regions around the world.
	www.altair.com /corporat/press/20041005.htm (663 words)

	MITS Altair 8800 computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Altair 8800, from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) of Albuquerque, NM, was first featured in the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics.
		The Altair was initially offered only as a kit - it took many days and nights of careful soldering and assembly to hopefully create a working Altair.
		The Altair is comprised of a case, a power supply, a front panel and a passive motherboard with 16 expansion slots.
	oldcomputers.net /altair.html (492 words)

	Altair Engineering in Sweden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Altair is comprised of five lines of business with over 700 consultants serving more than 1,500 clients worldwide.
		The suite, Altair® HyperWorks®, is a comprehensive set of tools that enable designers and engineers to efficiently model and study complex structures and assemblies to optimize design performance.
		Altair is organized to empower our clients across vertical industries to rapidly develop and deliver highly engineered products from concept to reality.
	www.altair.se /corporat/co.htm (408 words)

	Altair History
		Now, you can argue the point, but it is generally accepted that the MITS Altair, circa 1975, was the first mass produced, commercially successful personal computer, and Ed Roberts, with some help, masterminded its creation and success.
		The Altair was called a "Hobbyist Computer" because few users could afford enough parts and peripherals to built a "complete" computer system.
		Altair eventually got a hard disk, however it was big, heavy, and expensive.
	www.virtualaltair.com /virtualaltair.com/vac_history.asp (562 words)

	Altair Nanotechnologies Outlines Battery Electrode Materials Program : ArriveNet Press Releases : Technology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Altair reported these results in 2001, and a version of this report was subsequently published in the July 2003 edition of the Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
		Altair's research and development in electrode materials is addressing fundamental requirements of the rechargeable battery market -- fast charge times, long cycle life, high power output and safe designs.
		Altair's approach to market is to work with identified battery manufacturers and materials suppliers ranging from targeted battery solution vendors who see a very specific application for an Altair powered battery, to broad based suppliers wishing to build general market batteries using Altair materials.
	press.arrivenet.com /technology/article.php/616134.html (1681 words)

	History Repeats at Altair [Fool.com: Commentary] May 31, 2005
		Altair made news most recently when it put out a press release that looked, to me and many others, like a mere rehash of battery claims it has been making for years.
		Altair benefited from this jackpot when it secured a private placement deal, putting cash on the balance sheet, but watering down current shareholders' take of any eventual profits and sending the pretty obvious message that prices around $4 a stub were about as good as it could get.
		Altair claims this is just the work of a disgruntled man, but I don't think truth and disgruntlement are always mutually exclusive.
	www.fool.com /news/commentary/2005/commentary05053105.htm (2022 words)

	Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science: Altair History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But a copy of Altair BASIC that was stolen at a hobbyist club meeting sparked the first major software piracy controversy, causing Bill Gates to write an open letter to computer hobbyists, which really stirred up the animals, and began an ethics debate on software copying that still continues on today.
		The Altair 8800 microcomputer was the first successful home or personal computer, even though most people would give that credit to the Apple II or the IBM PC.
		When Bill Gates became aware that Altair BASIC was being openly and shamelessly pirated by large groups of hobbyists, he felt compelled to write "An Open Letter to Hobbyists", which was published in MITS monthly Computer Notes, and reprinted in many other national computer publications.
	onlineethics.org /contest/altair (2280 words)

	NASA Dryden Altair Predator B Photo Collection
		The long wings of General Atomics Altair UAV are in evidence during a series of environmental monitoring missions for NOAA and NASA in the spring of 2005.
		An ocean color senor, a passive microwave vertical sounder and an electro-optical sensor were mounted on the Altair UAV for the NOAA-NASA flight demonstration.
		The Altair, a civil variant of the QM-9 Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), shows off its lengthy high-aspect ratio wing while on the ramp at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems' flight test facility at El Mirage, California.
	www1.dfrc.nasa.gov /gallery/photo/Altair_PredatorB (577 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Altair 8800
		The Altair was based on the 8-bit Intel 8080 microprocessor, had 256 bytes of random access
		Although it was short-lived, the Altair is considered the first successful personal computer, which were then called home computers.
		Pertec made Altairs for the following year, but within two years, all elements of MITS were gone from Pertec.
	fusionanomaly.net /altair8800.html (344 words)

	Altair on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Altair Nanotechnologies Reports Revenue for 2001; First Quarter Revenue Surpasses Revenue for Entire Year Ended December 31, 2001.
		Altair Nanotechnologies and NTera File Joint Patent; New Generation of Nanostructure Batteries Closer to Commercial Reality As Companies Cooperate to Further Development.
		Altair 8800 Computer The first successful microcomputer and the first commercial computer that came with a Micro.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Altair.asp (419 words)

	The MITS Altair
		To put the Altair in the proper perspective, it's important to remember a few things.
		The Altair was produced as a direct response to the Mark-8.
		Several models of the Altair were produced, but only the first model, the original 8800, had any historic impact.
	www.blinkenlights.com /altair.shtml (283 words)

	November 2001 Antenna
		Two Altair microcomputers: the 680b, 1976 (on top), and the famous 8800, which contained a new and powerful Intel chip.
		Many historians and journalists consider the Altair to have been the first personal computer because it led to the beginning of software giant Microsoft and the formation of today’s personal computer industry.
		From a social perspective, however, the Altair was the first computer that individuals owned, another reason many consider it the first personal computer.
	www.mercurians.org /nov_2001/first_pc.html (1684 words)

	The Online Software Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On January 2nd, 1975, only days after the stunning announcement of the Altair kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine had been delivered into the hands of its eager subscribers, a letter was on its way to MITS from two Harvard students, Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
		At that early point in its life, the Altair was nothing more than several bags of parts and an instruction book for assembly.
		But this, Altair Disk Extended BASIC version 4.1, was almost all personally written by the two future tycoons.
	museum.sysun.com /museum/althist.html (712 words)

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