CPU
Intel 8080, Intel 8080A
MITS Altair 8800
MITS · 1975
The machine that started it all. The January 1975 Popular Electronics cover created the personal computer industry, the Homebrew Computer Club formed around it, and Microsoft's first product was a BASIC written for it. Front panel switches and lights, no keyboard, no screen. Among the most historically valuable computers there is.
As catalogued
- Maker
- MITS
- CPU
- Intel 8080-2
- Memory
- 1K, 4K
- Styles
- 8800, 8800a, 8800b, 8800b Turnkey
- Regions
- US
- Chassis
- blue and grey rack box with switches and lamps
- OS
- none, or Altair BASIC from tape
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