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	Altair 8800 Computer, Altair 32 Emulator, Altair Front Panel Computer history, Old Computers
		Altair32 emulates a "loaded" Altair 8800 containing an Intel 8080 CPU board with 64k of RAM (the limit of the 8080's address space).
		The single-port card was used initially as the console port for use with Altair BASIC and many other early programs and was hard-coded to I/O ports 0/1.
		Altair DOS was long promised but not delivered until it was almost irrelevant in the face of CP/M's wide acceptance.
	www.altair32.com /Altair32specs.htm (918 words)

	Fleet Overview - Altair Virtual Airlines
		Registered Altair pilots have access to the rest of the fleet, however, this free aircraft is just what you need to pass your initial VFR checkride, so this has got to be the cheapest way in the virtual airline business to get your PPL.
		Altair Virtual Aviation Services is the division within Altair responsible for all kinds of flights that do not qualify as "regular" and fall out of the scope of the AVA, AVE, AVC or AGL divisons.
		Altair Aviation itself has a variety of branches that allow the division to take care of the missions it is resppnsible for.
	www.altairva-fs.com /fleet/ava_fleetov.htm (1129 words)

	Altair BASIC programming language - Glasgledius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Altair BASIC was a true milestone in software history : the first programming language for the world's first truly personal computer.
		Altair BASIC was also the source of a controversy in the late 1970s.
		John Draper managed to get hold of a paper tape with Altair BASIC on, just before it was launched, and went on to make lots of copies and give them away for free.
	www.glasglow.com /E2/mi/Microsoft_BASIC.html (237 words)

	Altair BASIC - TheBestLinks.com - Bill Gates, BASIC programming language, Floppy disk, Home computer, ...
		Altair BASIC, in its first incarnation, MITS 4K BASIC, was a true milestone in software history — the first programming language for the world's first truly personal computer, the MITS Altair 8800.
		The historic interpreter was later expanded to MITS 8K BASIC, and eventually, Altair Disk Extended BASIC (for use with MITS' floppy disk drive).
		Altair BASIC was also the source of controversy in the late 1970s.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Altair_BASIC.html (383 words)

	The Age of Altair - A Users guide to the Mits Altair Computers
		In 1975 the personal computer era began in earnest with the introduction of The Altair 8800 by MITs.
		Based on the Intel 8080 microprocessor, it has become famous for it's association with Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
		They wrote Microsoft's (Micro-soft at the time) first software: Altair Basic.
	www.altairage.com (269 words)

	BASIC Language - ZikiWiki
		In computer programming, BASIC (an acronym for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code The acronym is tied to the name of an unpublished paper by Thomas Kurtz and is not a backronym, as is sometimes suggested.) refers to a family of high-level programming languages.
		The original BASIC language was designed in 1963 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.
		Versions of Microsoft BASIC soon started appearing on other platforms under license, and millions of copies and variants were soon in use; it became one of the standard languages on the Apple II (based on the quite different 6502 MPU).
	www.zikiwiki.com /wiki/BASIC_Language (3282 words)

	History of Computing Science: The Creation of Microsoft
		They decided on their own that the Altair needed software and took it upon themselves to contact MITS owner Ed Roberts and offer to provide him with a BASIC which would run on the Altair.
		BASIC (Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) had originally been developed in 1963 by Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny, members of the Dartmouth mathematics department.
		BASIC was designed to provide an interactive, easy method for upcoming computer scientists to program computers.
	www.eingang.org /Lecture/basic.html (166 words)

	Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science: Altair History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		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.
		It was a very basic application for about $1000 worth of equipment, but soon MITS was selling memory, Altair Basic and 8" floppy disk drives, which allowed users to build real small business systems to do useful applications.
		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)

	MITS Altair 8800 computer
		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.
		Even though MITS shipped up to 1000 Altairs a month, and did $13 million in busines in 1977, the company was sold to Pertec, which continued producing Altairs through 1978.
	oldcomputers.net /altair.html (0 words)

	Computer / Game Console History - MITS Altair 8800
		Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution that took off in the next few years.
		She suggested Altair, which was the destination for the Enterprise during an episode of Star Trek that she was watching.
		In the first design of the Altair, the parts needed to make a complete machine would not fit on a single motherboard, and the machine consisted of four boards stacked on top of each other with stand-offs.
	www.maniacworld.com /game_console_history/MITSAltair8800.htm (1618 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / Even Microsoft Started from Nothing
		Yet a stereotype survives of the basic disco-era computer enthusiast: an unkempt, college-age male, hunched, fever-eyed, over a box of tangled wires and circuits in his garage.
		But were the Altair to come with a programming language, buyers could use it to enter commands on a teletype.
		New hardware makers, inspired by demand for the Altair, were springing up all the time, and they all wanted to do business with a company headquartered in a dingy Albuquerque apartment.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/web/20061125-bill-gates-microsoft-paul-allen-computer-basic-software.shtml (2387 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)

	MITS ALTAIR 8800
		The Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics was a dummy; there was nothing behind the front panel with its lights and switches.
		This was the famous BASIC written by Bill Gates (which is another story) and was not too bad a deal, except for the fact that the Altair dynamic memory boards did not work very well.
		BASIC programs were shared among users by publishing them in magazines or exchanging paper or audio tapes at clubs.
	www.pc-history.org /altair.htm (0 words)

	BASIC Summary
		BASIC began as an interpreted language, meaning that the code was run in a line-by-line manner, as it was written.
		Notwithstanding the language's use on several minicomputers, it was the introduction of the Altair 8800 microcomputer in 1975 that provided BASIC a path to universality.
		It is somewhat difficult to consider this language to be BASIC, because of the major shift in its orientation towards an object-oriented and event-driven prospective.
	www.bookrags.com /BASIC (4087 words)

	Computer History Museum - Exhibits - Collection Highlights - Altair BASIC Paper Tape
		This paper tape contains the first version of a BASIC language interpreter written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen for the MITS Altair 8800 computer while both were students at Harvard University.
		The Altair was a computer kit that appeared as the cover story of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine.
		Altair BASIC was the first mass-produced commercial program written by Gates's company, known at the time as "Micro Soft."
	www.computerhistory.org /exhibits/highlights/basic.shtml (108 words)

	Altair 8800 from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		They realised that the Altair, which was programmed via its binary front panel needed a high level language.
		Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat).
		Altair BASIC was ported to the Motorola 6800 for the Altair 680 machine, and to other 8080-based microcomputers produced by MITS' competitors.
	ftp.sunet.se /foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Altair (352 words)

	Altair from FOLDOC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		They realized that the Altair, which was programmed via its binary front panel needed a high level language.
		Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat).
		Altair BASIC was ported to the Motorola 6800 for the Altair 680 machine, and to other 8080-based microcomputers produced by MITS' competitors.
	www.instantweb.com /foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Altair (390 words)

	Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Since there was no operating system on the Altair, Altair BASIC included what we now think of as BIOS.
		Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat).
		Altair BASIC was ported to the Motorola 6800 for the Altair 680 machine, and to other 8080-based microcomputers produced by MITS' competitors.
	burks.bton.ac.uk /burks/foldoc/91/4.htm (324 words)

	BASIC
		But, like it or not, BASIC is still the most widely-available language for micros; and it is the language most novices who wish to begin programming their PC's must learn.
		This is a Microsoft BASIC, the descendant of the original Altair BASIC that gave Bill Gates his start in the software field in 1975, when he was still a college student.
		One of the problems of Basic was that every micro had its own dialect, and they were all incompatible; this is not so relevant any more, since all the other systems are gone and solely the PC remains.
	members.chello.at /theodor.lauppert/computer/basic.htm (647 words)

	MITS Altair 8800
		The Altair 8800 was far from the first "Personal Computer" but it was the first truly successful one.
		I was studying The history of the Altair computer and I need to say that your web site is the very best I have read for a look inside the hood of the 8800.
		One day I did a literal translation of Altair basic into ascii characters and one section of the code came across with Bill Gates name in it as the author.
	www.vintage-computer.com /altair8800.shtml (3603 words)

	Raiders of the Lost Altair BASIC Source Code \| The Register
		With the Altair long gone, French journalist Andre Warusfel asked Gates if he could have access to the source code.
		The source code to the 4K Altair BASIC resides in the Pusey library at Harvard, although its arrival there seems to have been through chance.
		Monte doesn't own any football teams, and may not be a billionaire (he may be, we were just too shy to ask), but it's nice that his place in history should now be confirmed.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2001/05/13/raiders_of_the_lost_altair (655 words)

	BASIC Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page
		BASIC (an acronym for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code") is the name of a family of related high-level programming languages, developed, circa 1963 at Dartmouth College, to provide an accessible and easy-to-learn environment for non-science students to understand and use computers.
		Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS Chipmunk Basic for Mac OS is an old-fashioned Basic interpreter which runs on almost all Apple Macintosh computers.
		Chipmunk Basic was featured in the Programming Paradigms column of the December 1995 issue of Dr.
	www.nicholson.com /rhn/basic (0 words)

	Altair - FreekiWiki
		MITS Altair's 8800-The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics heralded the arrival of the Altair 8800, a DIY kit based on Intel's third-generation microprocessor, the 8080.
		Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
		We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists.
	wiki.freegeek.org /index.php?title=Altair&printable=yes (697 words)

	Hanoi: BASIC
		A BASIC langauge implementation of The Towers of Hanoi.
		Two surprising things are apparent, however, 1) Most of these "users" never bought BASIC (less than 10% of all Altair owners have bought BASIC), and 2) The amount of royalties we have received from sales to hobbyists makes the time spent on Altair BASIC worth less than $2 an hour.
		We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists.
	www.kernelthread.com /hanoi/html/bas.html (502 words)

	Altair BASIC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Written by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff, without access to an actual Altair computer or even an 8080 CPU (they used a self made 8080 simulator running on a PDP-10 minicomputer), it fit nicely into 4 KB of memory leaving enough room — several hundred bytes — for BASIC programs.
		The historic interpreter was later expanded to MITS 8K BASIC, and eventually, Altair Disk Extended BASIC (for use with MITS' floppy disk drive).
		As the home computer revolution took hold in the early 1980s, Microsoft BASIC became the most prolific programming language in the world, counting installations.
	www.mywiseowl.com /articles/Altair_BASIC (361 words)

	MITS ALTAIR computers, docs, resources
		Note that in the read of this Altair is a row of capacitors, part of the earliest Altair power supplies.
		Altair 8800b documents: 1976, reprinted June 1977 8800b: front panel address and data switches on dark background with white horizontal strips 1) Altair 8800b Documentation, 280 pgs TOTAL except Ch 5.
		Altair disk systems and controllers manuals: Note: be advised that anyone purchasing the 88-DCDD manual or the 3202 manual may need the NWD mod doc and may wish to have all available versions of the controller schematics.
	retrotechnology.com /herbs_stuff/d_altair.html (3571 words)

	by David A. Harding
		The Altair was an early microcomputer produced by a company called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems [MITS]; it was named after the original destination of the Enterprise in the classic Star Trek episode Amok Time.
		The Altair was a kit: you bought it and you assembled it yourself, and after you assembled it, there wasn't much you could do with it because the only way to program the Altair was to flip a set of switches on the front of it and program in machine language op-codes.
		The first Apple was a kit, somewhat like the Altair, but the second Apple was a complete pre-assembled computer that you could buy, plug into the wall, plug into a monitor, press the power-on button, and expect it to work.
	gnuisance.net /blog (5161 words)

	Altair Insurance Background Investigations
		Altair covers basic areas of interest that are required for a good background investigation.
		The Basic Background Investigation covers individual and business background, a website search, and individual and professional license status and verification.
		Altair will choose states that apply to the individual's business(s) and residential address(s) from the first check.
	www.altair-usa.net /background/BasicBI.htm (264 words)

	Microsoft BASIC version information
		The BASIC programming language was developed at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960's by professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, as a vehicle to be used to teach programming.
		It ran in 4 kilobytes (that's not a typo; kilibytes) on the Altair 8800, which was based on the Intel 8080A processor.
		Microsoft's BASIC compilers, before the diversion of QB (meant to address the horror of Borland's wildly successful Turbo Pascal), were up to version 5.35 or so (also sold as IBM BASCOM in versions 1.0 and 2.0 before IBM dropped the line).
	www.emsps.com /oldtools/msbasv.htm (3876 words)

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