Personal computers including the Altair 8800 had existed for a few years at the time of his remark and Olsen himself owned a computer at home. The same year as his "prediction" brought a series of ...

Roberts called his computer the Altair 8800 and offered it as a kit ... and couldn't really see why anyone would want a home computer. They also failed to see the implications of the new ...

Then there started to be some rumblings of home computers (like the ... As much disparity as there is between an Altair 8800 and a modern personal computer, looking even further back is fascinating.

Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover, January 1975. It is hailed as the first "personal" computer. Thousands of orders for the 8800 rescue MITS from bankruptcy.

(Times-Union note: Wikipedia says a bus is "a communication system that transfers data between components inside a computer ...