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 ...

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 ...

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. Not long after Intel introduced its ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on November 29, 1974, also a Friday, the January issue of the widely read US magazine "Popular Electronics" went to the printers. It was due to reach subscribers in mid-December ...

Owning a piece of computer history can be expensive and not much fun. You can buy a vintage MITS Altair 8800, one of the world’s first successful desktop computers, on eBay, but a good one will cost ...

A 1974 MITS Altair 8800 kit computer has been restored to operational condition and has now executed software for the first recorded time, with the milestone dated January 14, 2026. The system had ...