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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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Source: https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/nmah_1325627

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

that unshielded CRT gives me anxiety.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I know why you say that, but I thought it is cyber-sexy.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 hours ago

Cyber-sexy things give me anxiety.