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    Shows how to load a bootloader, run the bootloader, boot MITS 8k BASIC, load a craps game and run it on a MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer.

    The Altair is arguably the first hobbyist / personal computer and it spawned a little company named Micro-Soft.



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  • TubeSalvation

    watch?v=ysNd4QGOgeY
    Friday 27 January 2012 16:30:32
  • uday234

    chuck norris can play crysis on this
    Sunday 22 January 2012 10:19:12
  • rockangel1967

    im a professional electronic engineer and i have made a small computer like this. sitches on 8 databus and 16 address bus. 64 kb ram and UART to communicate with a terminal programm. i wish i had the money, i would build another one but a bit better. 8bit comuters rule!
    Thursday 03 November 2011 06:23:43
  • panashe3110

    @rockangel1967 WINNING:)
    Wednesday 02 November 2011 20:05:28
  • tschak909

    @axel1973w I had a Teletype ASR-33, which had a paper tape reader in it (hence the A, meaning Automatic). It was a very simple device, BASIC came wrapped in paper tape format, which looks like adding machine paper, except a bit thicker, and it has holes punched in it. Each row represented a complete byte. I would load the tape into the teletype, key in the loader, run the loader, and start the paper tape loader. It would blindly copy the bits out the RS-232 port. Took a few mins to load BASIC.
    Sunday 25 September 2011 12:11:18
  • poopskinTheLiar

    @axel1973w A dumb terminal, of course.
    Monday 22 August 2011 22:23:38
  • poopskinTheLiar

    i wonder how close the replica kits are to the real deal? if they every become available again i want to get one...
    Monday 22 August 2011 22:23:09
  • TunioMir

    I bet that can run crysis 2 easy... 
    Saturday 20 August 2011 05:50:33
  • b3ntleg

    Ok I don't have the best knowledge of computer science in the world, but it looks like he was putting binary inputs onto the left side of the machine but it only had 6 switches I would have thought it would need 8. And what were the input/options for the basic interpreter back then?
    Sunday 17 July 2011 15:33:02
  • filesonfire

    Where did you buy yours?
    Saturday 16 July 2011 17:40:46
  • Lostzilla847

    can it run Windows 7? XD
    Thursday 07 July 2011 21:18:38
  • axel1973w

    You will have to hack in the "bootloader" every time you power up the altair? JESUS! And after that youll have to load the basic interpreter programm via serial... but WHERE did u load it from back then when there was no Windows XP Terminal where you could put your binary file in? there been any "serial line cassette tape" or sumthin?
    Sunday 26 June 2011 01:45:42
  • RoberTastic

    do you think a monkey could learn how to program this?
    Tuesday 14 June 2011 04:42:10
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    Tuesday 24 May 2011 10:13:31
  • Donzieja

    Dammit, Don... Stealing my name... :D My rap name was supposed to be BigDon... But Then I realized I hate rap. :P
    Sunday 22 May 2011 22:33:52
  • Jerkwad152

    @bestpctips It'll eat an i7 for breakfast and shit out an i3.
    Sunday 01 May 2011 12:53:21
  • didogazeto

    Emulator of Altair is called Altair32
    Saturday 16 April 2011 11:57:03
  • didogazeto

    can i play Dead Space on it?
    Friday 15 April 2011 09:51:20
  • didogazeto

    @leakesonasucs everything (without the processor) will EXPLODE :P
    Friday 15 April 2011 09:50:56
  • leakesonasucs

    A 2011 IS FASTER THAN THIS. PUT THE NEW PROCESSER OF 2011 INSIDE OF THAT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
    Wednesday 30 March 2011 17:24:26
  • bestpctips

    can it run crysis?
    Sunday 06 March 2011 22:18:59
  • mario64k

    Can I play CRYSIS 2  on this computer ?? hardware of this computer: - Intel 8080 2 Mhz - 256 bytes - 34 Leds memory video ? But is intersting !! the best computer for microsoft and basic lenguage !! .
    Friday 25 February 2011 14:59:02
  • lordpolvo

    Bill Gates didnt write BASIC for that I DID !
    Sunday 20 February 2011 16:44:26
  • rudeydudey05

    @MrTabby5000 Well for a start, a student studying Computer Science at Uni in 1970, would'nt need to queue half the day and book computer time a few days inadvanced just to use the School computer for a hour, imo, when Altair BASIC was developed for it, it became a god send as it allowed people to program in Basic, i'd say it was the worlds most important computer, just for the fact it allowed people like you and me to own a Home Computer and it pioneered the devlopment of the home computer.
    Sunday 20 February 2011 06:13:56
  • aseglkj

    this is like masturbating with a cheese grater
    Friday 18 February 2011 07:18:36
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