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[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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[โ€“] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 9 hours ago

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