IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A computer board for the Altair 8800 ...

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ed Roberts, an engineer who helped develop a precursor to the modern ...

He created one of the earliest computer kits, the MITS Altair 8800 which led to Bill Gates and Paul Allen founding Microsoft to write Basic for it. from Gates & Allen via techflash.com We are deeply ...

Growing up in Seattle, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen were obsessed with an emerging industry called computing. As teenagers, they haunted the University of Washington’s computer lab, the ...

Like many my age, my first computer was a homebuilt. More than 30 years ago Radio Electronics magazine ran an article on building an Intel 8008 based computer. Still in high school, I saved my pennies ...

For those of us who are of a certain age or temperament, there’s a certain something about programming simple 8-bit computers in machine code using switches and pushbuttons. According to Wikipedia, ...

Browse around eBay for an original Altair 8800 and you quickly find that the price range is in the thousands of dollars. If you are a collector and have some money in your pocket maybe that’s okay.

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A computer board for the Altair 8800 ...