Altair 8800 (English Wikipedia)

Young, Jeffrey S. (1998). "Chapter 6: 'Mechanics: Kits & Microcomputers'". Forbes Greatest Technology Stories: Inspiring Tales of the Entrepreneurs. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-24374-4.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003). A History of Modern Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. p. 226. ISBN 0-262-53203-4. "This announcement [Altair 8800] ranks with IBM's announcement of the System/360 a decade earlier as one of the most significant in the history of computing."
Freiberger, Paul; Swaine, Michael (2000). Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-135892-7.
Freiberger, Paul; Swaine, Michael (2000). Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. p. 42. ISBN 0-07-135892-7. "Roberts was sure he could get the chip price much cheaper, and he did. Intel knocked the price down to $75."
Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003). A History of Modern Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 222–224. ISBN 0-262-53203-4.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. (2003). A History of Modern Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 201–206. ISBN 0-262-53203-4.
Littman, Jonathan (1987). Once Upon a Time in ComputerLand: The Amazing, Billion-Dollar Tale of Bill Millard. Los Angeles: Price Stern Sloan. p. 18. ISBN 0-89586-502-5. "Later that day, December 16 [1975], United Parcel Service picked up the first shipment of 50 IMS computer kits for delivery to customers."

arstechnica.com

Reimer, Jeremy (2005-12-15). "Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
- Jeremy Reimer (2012-12-07). "Total Share: Personal Computer Market Share 1975-2010". Jeremy Reimer.

atarimagazines.com

Mims, Forrest M. (November 1984). "The Altair story; early days at MITS". Creative Computing. Vol. 10, no. 11. p. 17. Archived from the original on 8 April 2007.

books.google.com

Salsberg, Arther (November 12, 1984). "Jaded Memory". InfoWorld. Vol. 6, no. 46. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 7. ISSN 0199-6649. Salsberg states that the Altair was named by John McVeigh

computer.org

Garland, Harry (March 1977). "Design Innovations in Personal Computers". Computer. 10 (3). IEEE Computer Society: 24. doi:10.1109/c-m.1977.217669. S2CID 32243439. There is little question that the current enthusiasm in personal computing was catalyzed by the introduction of the MITS Altair computer kit in January 1975.

digibarn.com

Moore, Fred (July 1976). "Hardware". Homebrew Computer Club Newsletter. 1 (5): 2, 5. Retrieved 2007-12-30.

doi.org

Garland, Harry (March 1977). "Design Innovations in Personal Computers". Computer. 10 (3). IEEE Computer Society: 24. doi:10.1109/c-m.1977.217669. S2CID 32243439. There is little question that the current enthusiasm in personal computing was catalyzed by the introduction of the MITS Altair computer kit in January 1975.
Michalopoulos, Demetrios A. (October 1976). "New Products". Computer. 9 (10). IEEE: 59–64. doi:10.1109/C-M.1976.218414. "Intel Corporation has announced that an interactive display console and highspeed line printer are now available for the Intellec MDS microcomputer development system. … The display console costs $2,240 and the printer $3,200 in quantities of 1 to 9. Delivery is in 30 days. Price of the basic Intellec MDS with 16K bytes of RAM memory, including interfaces and resident software for operating the peripherals, is $3,950."
Brillinger, P. C.; D. D. Cowan (November 1970). "A complete package for introducing computer science". SIGCSE Bulletin. 2 (3). ACM: 118–126. doi:10.1145/873641.873659. S2CID 16270182. Describes the introductory computer science courses at the University of Waterloo.

espacenet.com

worldwide.espacenet.com

US patent 3800129, Richard H. Umstattd, "MOS Desk Calculator", issued 1974-03-26

ftldesign.com

altair.ftldesign.com

MITS (June 1975). "MITS advertisement". Digital Design. 4 (6). CMP Information. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-01. "There was a subsequent article in February's Popular Electronics and the MITS people knew the Altair was here to stay. During that month alone, over 1,000 mainframes were sold. Datamation, March 1975." "By the end of May, MITS had shipped over 2,500 Altair 8800's"

intel.com

Intel Corporation (1984). Glynnis Thompson Kaye (ed.). A Revolution in Progress - A History to Date of Intel (PDF). Intel Corporation. p. 14. Order number:231295.

jeremyreimer.com

Reimer, Jeremy (2005-12-15). "Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
- Jeremy Reimer (2012-12-07). "Total Share: Personal Computer Market Share 1975-2010". Jeremy Reimer.

newscientist.com

Newscientist Sept 21 gallery: March of the outdated machines

nmnaturalhistory.org

startup.nmnaturalhistory.org

Milford, Annette (April 1976). "Computer Power of the Future - The Hobbyists". Computer Notes. 1 (11). Altair Users Group, MITS Inc.: 7. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-01."Les Solomon entertained a curious audience with anecdotes about how it all began for MITS, The name for MITS' computer, for example, was inspired by his 12-year-old daughter. She said why don't you call it Altair -- that's where the Enterprise is going tonight."
Bunnell, David (August 1975). "Across the Editor's Desk". Computer Notes. 1 (3). Altair Users Group, MITS Inc.: 2. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-26. Intel letter to its sales force. "We wish to clarify any misconception that may exist in your minds regarding the MITS ALTAIR system. This product is designed around the Intel Standard Data Sheet 8080 family."
Roberts, H. Edward (October 1975). "Letter from the President". Computer Notes. 1 (5). Altair Users Group, MITS Inc.: 3. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2008-07-12. "We had less than 20 employees when we introduced the Altair and now we have grown to 90 as a result of our Altair customers." Roberts also discussed the problems with the 4K dynamic RAM boards. Customers got a $50 refund.

old-computers.com

"MITS - ALTAIR COMPANY IS SOLD TO PERTEC (MAY 1977)". OldComputers.Com. Retrieved October 14, 2015.

semanticscholar.org

api.semanticscholar.org

Garland, Harry (March 1977). "Design Innovations in Personal Computers". Computer. 10 (3). IEEE Computer Society: 24. doi:10.1109/c-m.1977.217669. S2CID 32243439. There is little question that the current enthusiasm in personal computing was catalyzed by the introduction of the MITS Altair computer kit in January 1975.
Brillinger, P. C.; D. D. Cowan (November 1970). "A complete package for introducing computer science". SIGCSE Bulletin. 2 (3). ACM: 118–126. doi:10.1145/873641.873659. S2CID 16270182. Describes the introductory computer science courses at the University of Waterloo.

si.edu

americanhistory.si.edu

Gates, Bill. "NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY Bill Gates interview".

virtualaltair.com

Greelish, David (1996). "Ed Roberts Interview with Historically Brewed magazine". Historically Brewed (9). Historical Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-11-22. Ed Roberts said: "We had a Nova 2 by Data General in the office that we sold timeshare on … The front panel on an Altair essentially models every switch that was on the Nova 2. We had that machine to look at. The switches are pretty much standard of any front panel machine. It would have taken forever if we would have had to re-decide where every switch had to go."

web.archive.org

Reimer, Jeremy (2005-12-15). "Total share: 30 years of personal computer market share figures". Ars Technica. Archived from the original on 2012-06-07. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
- Jeremy Reimer (2012-12-07). "Total Share: Personal Computer Market Share 1975-2010". Jeremy Reimer.
- Mims, Forrest M. (November 1984). "The Altair story; early days at MITS". Creative Computing. Vol. 10, no. 11. p. 17. Archived from the original on 8 April 2007.
- Milford, Annette (April 1976). "Computer Power of the Future - The Hobbyists". Computer Notes. 1 (11). Altair Users Group, MITS Inc.: 7. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-01."Les Solomon entertained a curious audience with anecdotes about how it all began for MITS, The name for MITS' computer, for example, was inspired by his 12-year-old daughter. She said why don't you call it Altair -- that's where the Enterprise is going tonight."
- Bunnell, David (August 1975). "Across the Editor's Desk". Computer Notes. 1 (3). Altair Users Group, MITS Inc.: 2. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2007-12-26. Intel letter to its sales force. "We wish to clarify any misconception that may exist in your minds regarding the MITS ALTAIR system. This product is designed around the Intel Standard Data Sheet 8080 family."
- MITS (June 1975). "MITS advertisement". Digital Design. 4 (6). CMP Information. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-01. "There was a subsequent article in February's Popular Electronics and the MITS people knew the Altair was here to stay. During that month alone, over 1,000 mainframes were sold. Datamation, March 1975." "By the end of May, MITS had shipped over 2,500 Altair 8800's"
- Roberts, H. Edward (October 1975). "Letter from the President". Computer Notes. 1 (5). Altair Users Group, MITS Inc.: 3. Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved 2008-07-12. "We had less than 20 employees when we introduced the Altair and now we have grown to 90 as a result of our Altair customers." Roberts also discussed the problems with the 4K dynamic RAM boards. Customers got a $50 refund.
- Greelish, David (1996). "Ed Roberts Interview with Historically Brewed magazine". Historically Brewed (9). Historical Computer Society. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2007-11-22. Ed Roberts said: "We had a Nova 2 by Data General in the office that we sold timeshare on … The front panel on an Altair essentially models every switch that was on the Nova 2. We had that machine to look at. The switches are pretty much standard of any front panel machine. It would have taken forever if we would have had to re-decide where every switch had to go."

worldcat.org

Salsberg, Arther (November 12, 1984). "Jaded Memory". InfoWorld. Vol. 6, no. 46. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. p. 7. ISSN 0199-6649. Salsberg states that the Altair was named by John McVeigh