Altair 8800

A kit-based home computer originally released in 1975 and largely credited with sparking the home computer revolution. Much like mainframes and minicomputers of the time, its front panel featured a number of toggle switches for entering programs and examining memory.

Altair32 is probably the most aesthetically appealing simulator available. In addition to its fully-functional front panel, it ships with several images of period software, among them 4K and 8K versions of Altair BASIC. Unfortunately, we have so far been unable to run BASIC or even the kill-the-bit game.

Much more promising is the Altair-Duino. As the name implies, it is a hardware replica kit based around an Arduino Due.

• deramp Altair files
• http://altair32.classiccmp.org/pdf/
• https://altairclone.com/altair_experience.html
• Altair 8800c project