IBM has a 20th anniversary of the birth of PC in 2001, although the word PC is really brought to us by IBM, but generally believes that the world's first can be called a PC ancestor, which is a PC, should be Altair 8800, birth It is the 30th anniversary of January 30 years ago.
We often forget some memorable days, but Heinz NiXdorf Museumsforum from Germany reminded us in time: MITS, this small company in New Mexico launched the world's first in January 1975. A true personal computer product: Altair 8800, at that time, the host was priced at $ 397, and the entire equipment was priced at $ 498.
Altair 8800
Founder Ed Roberts of Altair 8800
The Altair 8800 looks very different from the current computer. It does not have a display, keyboard or even disk storage device, but through the switch, the status indicator, the status indicator, and the programming result, of course it is written. The program is also very original. It is said that the President of Microsoft's president is also written by Altair 8800. Unfortunately, Altair 8800 has not been unmatched by the unmattered sales. When Apple launches Apple II PC and IBM in 1981, almost no one remembers the existence of Altair 8800.
Bill Gates (right) and Paul Allen write DOS for IBM PC
On the hardware configuration, Altair 8800 uses Intel 8080 processor, memory capacity 6.5K bytes, and 6.5k Prime programs provide 181 operable machine instructions.
