Saturday 6 July 2013

Altair 8800 Clone: A near-empty box filled with history


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 you over US$4,000. That’s why computer enthusiast Mike Douglas developed the Altair 8800 Clone. It’s a modern, inexpensive, functional reproduction of the historic Altair 8800 computer that uses 21st century technology to recreate a bit of computer history for hobbyists and educators... Continue Reading Altair 8800 Clone: A near-empty box filled with history

Section: Computers

Tags: Computers, History

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