Friday, July 15, 2011

Altair 8800

Considered by many to be the first microcomputer, the MITS Altair 8800 is released in 1974. Developed by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the $495 Altair has a 2 MHz Intel 8080 processor, 256 bytes of RAM, and interfaces with the user through octal front panel switches. There is no keyboard, video terminal or paper tape reader.
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