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	Smart Computing Encyclopedia Entry - Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Altair is either the eleventh or twelfth brightest star in the sky depending on whom you ask, and it is also the name of what most computer historians consider to be the first PC.
		The Altair 8800 made computer technology accessible to hobbyists for the first time, igniting the fuse of the PC market that exploded in later years.
		MITS founder Ed Roberts left the company in 1977, shortly after it was acquired, to become a physician.
	www.smartcomputing.com /editorial/dictionary/detail.asp?guid=&searchtype=1&DicID=16333&RefType=Encyclopedia (593 words)

	Altair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Altair is most notable for its extremely rapid rotation; by measuring the width of its spectral line s, 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).
		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.
		Altair L'associazione Altair di Roma illustra le proposte di uscite escursionistiche, sugli sci di fondo, ma anche al mare.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Altair.html (518 words)

	Knowledge King - Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution that took off in the next few years.
		MITS was devastated by this (as were many companies) and Roberts returned to being a dentist while trying to reduce his quarter-million dollar debt load.
		She suggested Altair, which was the destination for the Enterprise during an episode of Star Trek that she was watching.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/a/al/altair_8800.html (1378 words)

	Encyclopedia: Altair 8800
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Altair-8800 (3402 words)

	MITS Altair 8800 computer
		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 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.
	www.oldcomputers.net /altair.html (494 words)

	Altair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Altair is most notable for its extremely rapid rotation; by measuring the width of its spectral lines, it was determined that its equator does acomplete rotation in about 6 1/2 hours (various other sources give 9 hours, or 10.4 hours).
		The MITS Altair 8800 was one of the firsthobbyist/home/personal microcomputers, announced in PopularElectronics magazine in January 1975.
		The Altair computer was named after the star because the daughter of the man responsible for coming up with a suitable name,when asked what she thought the computer should be called, was watching an episode of Star Trek where the StarshipEnterprise had the Altair as its destination.
	www.therfcc.org /altair-31560.html (284 words)

	Directory - Computers: Hardware: Historical: Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Altair · cached · Brief article on the history of the Altair 8800.
		MITS/Pertec Altair 8800/680b/MITS 300 · cached · Icom, Vector Graphic, Tarbell, PMMI, or other products that are not Altair or MITS products, it is because the systems were often mixed.
		MITS Altair 8800 · cached · 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.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=204097 (127 words)

	Piglet Directory > Computers> Hardware> Historical> Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Altair - Brief article on the history of the Altair 8800.
		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.
		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.
	www.ethick.com /directory/odp.php?browse=/Computers/Hardware/Historical/Altair_8800 (149 words)

	Altair 8800 - Definition of Altair 8800 by Webster's Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The MITS guys took the prototype Altair to New York to show Solomon, but couldn't get it to work after the flight.
		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.webster-dictionary.org /definition/Altair%208800 (353 words)

	MITS Altair 8800 Simulator Configuration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) Altair 8800 was announced on the January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics, which boasted you could buy and build this powerful computer kit for only $397.
		The "Altair Bus" that made this possible was soon called the S-100 Bus, later adopted as an industry standard, and eventually became the IEE-696 Bus.
		The simulator for the Altair 8800 was developed by Charles Owen.
	simh.trailing-edge.com /altair.html (205 words)

	MITS Altair 8800 computer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Altair 8800, from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems, was first featured in the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics.
		Apparently, Ed Roberts, the owner of MITS, asked his daughter what would be a good high-tech sounding name, and she suggested Altair - which was the name of a star in the popular tv series Star Trek.
		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.
	members.cox.net /obsoletetechnology/altair.html (316 words)

	Altair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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).
		As a result of its rapid rotation, Altair is oblate: its equatorial diameter is at least 14 percent greater than its polar diameter.
		The MITS Altair 8800 was one of the first hobbyist/home/personal microcomputers, announced in Popular Electronics magazine in January 1975.
	www.wikiverse.org /altair (411 words)

	NMAH: Altair 8800 Microcomputer
		Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 chip, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) announced a computer kit called the Altair, which met the social as well as technical requirements for a small personal computer.
		MITS succeeded where other, more established firms had failed, and it was their machine that inaugurated the personal computer age.
		MITS got its start in computing in 1971, when it introduced an electronic calculator kit.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=29 (304 words)

	Altair 8800
		The parent of this baby are MITS inc. and we call him Altair 8800.
		The Altair 8800 has a Intel 8080 CPU and is sold for 395 U$ or when you want it assembled 498 U$.
		The Altair 8800 is not a 'demonstrator' or souped-up calculator...
	www.thocp.net /hardware/altair.htm (591 words)

	MITS ALTAIR 8800
		MITS later replaced a lot of those early memory boards without cost, but the damage was done.
		They were selling the Altair 8800 A and B models, plus a small 6800-based computer and a full line of peripherals.
		MITS was actually in competition with the dealers and could not stop because of cash flow problems.
	pc-history.org /altair.htm (3805 words)

	MITS/Pertec Altair 8800/680b/MITS 300
		The Altair pictured on the cover of the magazine is actually a mock-up, as an actual computer was not available, Railway Express loses Ed Robert's only prototype Altair computer, en route to New York for review and photography for publishing by Popular Electronics.
		MITS once had the ad on the Back cover of Byte magazine Byte lists the MITS Altair 8800 as one of the Top 20 Small Systems.
		MITS first made radio control devices, then calculators and later the 8800 and 8800a.
	www.angelfire.com /pq/pcmuseum/altair1.html (914 words)

	Computer-Gallerie: MITS Altair 8800
		Nach der Übernahme durch Pertec wurde bald der Altair vom Markt genommen.
		Viele heute bekannte Persönlichkeiten ließen sich durch den Altair inspirieren.
		MITS war der allererste Kunde der gerade erst gegründeten Firma Microsoft.
	www.weller.to /com/comp-mits-altair.htm (514 words)

	The MITS Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		It was the Altair 8800, on the January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics, that really set off the (personal computer) boom.
		The first Altairs came with only 256 bytes of memory; they also lacked output devices such as printers.
	wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu /~csclub/museum/items/mits_altair_8800.html (203 words)

	OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum
		The ALTAIR 8800 had one input port, also called the "Sense Switches" (I/O address 255) which was the left hand 8 address switches.
		The Altair sense switch were used during boot into Altair DOS to specify the terminal port to the DOS.
		MITS made several peripherals and cards for this computer, namely, a video card, a serial card to connect a terminal, a RAM expansion card and a 8" floppy drive that used hard sectored floppies and stored 300 KB.
	www.old-computers.com /museum/computer.asp?c=62 (299 words)

	Altair 8800
		MITS Logo - The legendary MITS Logo in dim light.
		MITS Logo - The same logo, under strong lighting.
		Click here to view all comments for the MITS Altair 8800 and to leave your own.
	www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org /altair (504 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)

	Hardware/Historical/Altair 8800 : Computer Data
		Brief article on the history of the 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.
		Icom, Vector Graphic, Tarbell, PMMI, or other products that are not Altair or MITS products, it is because the systems were often mixed.
	www.computer-data.com /Hardware/Historical/Altair_8800/index.html (96 words)

	Altair Basic Programming Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		As the home computer revolution took hold in the early 1980s, Microsoft BASIC became the most prolific programming language in the world, counting installations.
		He had two problems: that Draper had acquired a tape and copied it, and that the tape that he had gotten hold of was an early buggy version, making Altair BASIC look bad.
	www.wikiverse.org /altair-basic-programming-language (397 words)

	OhGizmo! » Archive » Altair 8800 Kit
		One device that got a lot of mentions was the MITS Altair 8800 which is considered to be the system that truly sparked the personal computer revolution.
		Among certain collectors the MITS Altair 8800 is considered to be one of the most prized computers you can own.
		Grant Stockly from AltairKit.com is putting together kits complete with cases silk-screened with the Altair logo allowing any PC enthusiast to build their own.
	www.ohgizmo.com /2006/11/27/altair-8800-kit (465 words)

	DaVinci: Computers> Hardware> Historical> Altair 8800
		- Brief article on the history of the 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.
		These companies and components are an integral part of the Altair story.
	www.bluegrassdavinci.com /ODP/Computers/Hardware/Historical/Altair_8800 (91 words)

	ALTAIR 8800
		Nel 1975, il numero di gennaio della rivista Popular Electronics diede inizio al boom dei personal computer, presentando in copertina l'Altair 8800.
		Ed Roberts, il proprietario della MITS, fece scegliere il nome del computer a sua figlia: Altair, il nome di una stella, usata nel famoso film Star Trek.
		L'Altair 8800 era basato su un microprocessore Intel 8080, con 256 Byte di RAM, con un'interfaccia basata su interruttori, non c'era nè la tastiera, nè un terminale video.
	www.24pm-affiliation.com /encyclopedia/A/Altair_8800 (302 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Altair 8800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		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.
		Ed Roberts invented the 8800 -- which sold for $297, or $395 with a case -- and coined the term "personal computer." The machine came with 256 bytes of memory (expandable to 64K) and an open 100-line bus structure that
	www.fusionanomaly.net /altair8800.html (344 words)

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