That turned out to be the first of a multipart series on his Altair 8800 Again simulator. The front panel appears to be laser cut and in some future video episodes, we expect to see him simulate ...

The computer came out scant months after the introduction of the famous Altair 8800. Although the Altair ... a power switch and a reset button. A ROM monitor let you use the machine with a terminal.

Paul Allen and Bill Gates develop BASIC for the Altair 8800. Microsoft is born. 1977: Apple is selling its Apple II for $1,195, including 16K of RAM but no monitor. Software Arts develops the ...

was inspired by an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 microprocessor powered by Intel’s 8080 chip. The article inspired Gates, who was a freshman at Harvard at the ...

In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home computer by a small company named MITS.