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 ...

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 homemade keyboard for the ...

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 ...

Ed Roberts, the maker of the world’s first personal computer, died yesterday at the age of 68. Roberts created the Altair 8800, the first computer normal people could a) afford and b) use in their ...

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of ...

You can forget about the IBM Personal Computer and drop all the pretense about the 1984 Apple Macintosh. When it comes to which personal computer is the most influential of all time, there can only be ...

Since computers were very expensive and large, they were cheap enough to be owned by individuals in the mid-1970's, which was only used in some limited places such as laboratories and companies,Altair ...

For those of us who are of a certain age or temperament, there’s a certain something about programming simple 8-bit computers in machine code using switches and pushbuttons. According to Wikipedia, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ed Roberts, an engineer who helped develop a precursor to the modern ...

Ed Roberts, co-founder of Micro Information and Telemetry Systems (MITS) and designer of the Altair 8800, has died at the age of 68 The Altair 8800 kick-started the home computing revolution The ...