Altair 8800

Altair 8800

Ed Roberts passed away at the age of 66 by Bill Gates, and Paul Allen called the father of personal computers. Roberts to create Altaria inspired the computer Mark 8 with the first 8-bit processor in the world: Intel 8008. The diagram of this computer was described in the magazine, which contributed to Robert’s vision. Altair8800 was the first personal computer in the world that strongly interested the average person and aroused great interest and emotions. Mark 8 was only for hardcore electronics fans; its assembly was extremely complicated. Altair 8800 was for everyone. It was attracted by the low price of the computer itself and components, e.g., the low price of the processor. Sales increased, even for Roberts himself it was a surprising amount of purchases, the number of produced sets of components and people to receive orders began to be short. The crew was increased, and Altair sold very well. Looking from our perspective, Altari was very different from today’s computers; above all, the lack of a keyboard, it was a crude box with red lights shining like Christmas tree lights. However, as the real programmer says, no keyboard is needed, programming looked like entering commands triggered by setting switches. Very interesting and so different from our computers.

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