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Altair 8800, a small computer introduced in 1975 by Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems of New Mexico. Sold primarily in kit form, the Altair...

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	Windows Live® Search Results Altair 8800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080 CPU and sold as a mail-order kit through advertisements in Popular Electronics, Radio-Electronics ... Altair 8800 from FOLDOC Altair 8800 < computer > An Intel 8080-based machine made by MITS. The Altair was the first popular microcomputer kit. It appeared on the cover of the January 1975 "Popular ... Altair 8800 The Free Online Dictionary of Computing (http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/) is edited by Denis Howe < dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk >. Previous: ALTAC Next: Altair 9000 See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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