Once again, BASIC fit the bill. In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a modified version of BASIC to run on the MITS Altair 8080. Altair BASIC, as it came to be called, was Microsoft’s ...

That turned out to be the first of a multipart series on his Altair 8800 Again simulator ... Arduino or some other small CPU to simulate the 8080 CPU. The switches are multiplexed which isn ...

Ask anyone to name a first-generation home computer from the 1970s, and they’ll probably mention the likes of the Altair 8800 and IMSAI 8080. But those iconic machines weren’t the only options ...

It was based on, and took its name from, the Intel 8080 microprocessor. The Altair 8800 attracted the attention of Gates and Allen, who saw the computer on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine.