![]() ![]() The first programming language for the machine was Altair BASIC, the program written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Microsoft’s first product. The first release of the Altair 8800 was programmed by flipping switches, then came paper tape readers to load apps, monitors and keyboards, and floppy disk drive storage, revolutionary at the time. The Altair 8800 is considered to be the computer that sparked the PC revolution and kick-started Microsoft and Apple.Īltair 8800 image attribution: File:Altair 8800, Smithsonian Museum.jpg - Wikimedia Commons This was back in 1974, yes, that’s 47 years ago. The Intel 8080 was the second 8-bit microprocessor manufactured by Intel, clocked at 2MHz, with a 16-bit address bus to access a whopping 64 KB of RAM. The MITS Altair 8800 was built on the Intel 8080. I’m fascinated by tech and retro computing and this project combined both interests and hopefully, it will inspire you to fire up this project, learn about the past and connect to the future. ![]() I love embedded IoT development and when a colleague asked if I’d be interested in working on cloud-enabling an Altair 8800 emulator running on Azure Sphere then I seized the opportunity. ![]()
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