Owning a piece of computer history can be expensive and not much fun. You can buy a vintage MITS Altair 8800, one of the world’s first successful desktop computers, on eBay, but a good one will cost ...

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics introduced the Altair 8800 and hit the newsstands in December of 1974, so it is only natural that around the New Year people start thinking about the old ...

If you want to own a vintage computer there are sometimes auctions on ebay, but the end prices are high enough to give your bank manager palpitations. The MITS Altair 8800 for instance – when one of ...

Browse around eBay for an original Altair 8800 and you quickly find that the price range is in the thousands of dollars. If you are a collector and have some money in your pocket maybe that’s okay.

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company — with the big name of Micro ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a cathode ray tube monitor ...

Just before the first personal computer, the Altair 8800, was released in 1975, inventor H. Edward Roberts, who died this week, predicted that his New Mexico calculator company would sell 800 of the ...

Without the Altair 8800 where would we be today? Ed Robert's minicomputer kit was a vital catalyst to today's technology, inspiring Bill Gates and Paul Allen to found Microsoft in order to write a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This disk drive for 8" floppy disks ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last few posts, I talked about the ...

And it isn't even the real thing! A mere simulacrum, dissasembled, impertinently awaiting construction by us, its new slaves, the MITS Altair 8800 replica kit fetches lofty prices on eBay. Power cord ...

This is part of a series of posts about the circumstances leading up to the launch of the Altair 8800 in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics. In my last few posts, I talked about the ...