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 ...

Ed Roberts, the man who created the machine which would jumpstart an industry that would ultimately be worth thousands upon billions of dollars, died on April 1, 2010 at the age of 68. (Photo: Spencer ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Not long after Intel introduced its ...

On December 19, 1974, the first successful personal computer went on sale. They called it the Altair 8800. Popular Electronics magazine profiled the new PC in their January 1975 issue. Readers learned ...

A 1974 MITS Altair 8800 kit computer has been restored to operational condition and has now executed software for the first ...

Although electronic computers had been used by the military and businesses for many years, the first computers intended for hobbyists and home use did not appear commercially until the mid 1970s when ...

Have I told you the story about Bill Gates and me in those early days of personal computing? To be clear: Bill Gates is older than I am. In 1975, as Bill was leaving Harvard to start Microsoft, I had ...