[Thread] The Altair 8800 with its full kit, and the cover of Popular Electronics from January 1975. The first commercially available microcomputer! (lemmy.likes.cat)

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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Had no idea they included keyboards. Thought it was programmed solely by the toggle switches. ?

[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

I'm pretty sure a keyboard wasn't standard equipment. And it definitely couldn't drive a monitor like that directly.

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