A Year Ago: Dell uncovers world's oldest working PCs
News Dell finds an Altair 8800b that boots up faster than a Win98 machine. It's an MITS Altair 8800b, and it has been churning out wills and other legal documents for John C. Shepard's old Altair, considered to be the world's first PCs, will retire in...
[August 20, 2000, 7:03]
Relocation Company Builds Business on Microsoft Instead of Linux or Novell
White Papers Altair Global Relocation is one of the largest woman-owned global relocation companies in the United States. In 2003, Altair decided to switch from the Novell NetWare platform, primarily because it restricted IT changes.
[November 8, 2006, 0:00]
Sony TV will stream video from the Net
News Plans were set to debut an Altair product in Tokyo in June, but that schedule has been pushed back because of technical obstacles. The project, code-named Altair, is one of the company's latest efforts to make digital content more accessible on its...
[April 4, 2003, 13:41]
Nasa motion tech simulates lunar landings
News The Altair lunar lander, now in its third design iteration, will undergo changes based on the studies here, and eventually go into production and be used in the next generation of spaceflight. Unknown to many, both the Apollo and Altair lunar...
[November 30, 2009, 15:26]
PCs: More than one billion served
News The PC revolution essentially began in January 1975 when MITS began selling the Altair 8800. The Altair kit sold for $421 (about £286), or $621 assembled. But the Altair was the first commercially successful PC.
[July 1, 2002, 9:08]
Dell uncovers world's oldest working PCs
News It's an MITS Altair 8800b, and it has been churning out wills and other legal documents for John C. Shepard's old Altair, considered to be the world's first PCs, will retire in style: It'll spend the rest of its days in the Computer Museum of...
[August 20, 1999, 14:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fresh from my orgy of nerdiness last week, when I found and downloaded emulators for Edsac, the Ferranti Pegasus, the Oric Atmos, the Altair, and other bits of antediluvian technology, I go sniffing around after ancient chips.
[September 20, 1997, 9:00]
MacTF
Downloads MacTF is an native Cocoa Mac OS X application that can talk to the Topfield TF5000PVRt (and other 5xxx series models as well), similar to the Windows program Altair.exe. Features: Download of files including ability to download multiple files at...
[September 13, 2009, 18:36]
Microsoft's new weapon against Linux questioned
Talkback Since before Day One, actually, when they told MITS they had a BASIC for their Altair machine and the first line had yet to be written. Same old same old. Microsoft have been doing this kind of misrepresentation since Day One.
[November 1, 2004, 22:13]
Astro Compass 2.2
Downloads The program uses planets and a small archive of stars:"Achern","Acrux","Agena","Aldebaran","Alnair","Altair","Ankaa","Antares","Arneb","Arturo","Betelgeuse", "Canopus","Capella","Castore","Deneb","Fomalaut","Fornacis","Kiffa","Mizar","Peacock...
[August 18, 2006, 8:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
News Fresh from my orgy of nerdiness last week, when I found and downloaded emulators for Edsac, the Ferranti Pegasus, the Oric Atmos, the Altair, and other bits of antediluvian technology, I go sniffing around after ancient chips.
[September 20, 1997, 8:00]
Photos: A trip down silicon memory lane
News An Altair 8800, signed by several members of the Homebrew Computer Club, including Steve Wozniak, Captain Crunch and Lee Felsenstein. The DigiBarn is a computer history museum, nestled in a 90-year-old barn, deep in the Santa Cruz mountains about...
[August 20, 2007, 13:04]
IBM flies the grid flag at LinuxWorld
News The IBM system comes with a BladeCenter with seven blades that can be powered by Intel, AMD or IBM processors, along IBM Director management software and Grid Scheduler for allocating workloads using Altair PBS Professional, DataSynapse GridServer...
[August 9, 2005, 17:20]
RealNetworks releases player code for Linux
News Sony, for example, recently licensed Helix servers and audio-video codecs for its Altair home entertainment appliance. RealNetworks on Wednesday will announce plans to release the source code of its audio and video player to run on the Linux...
[August 6, 2003, 15:10]
Linux firms adopt open-source media player
News Sony, for example, licensed Helix servers and audio-video compression software for its Altair home entertainment appliance. Linux software makers Red Hat and Novell said on Monday that they will begin offering RealNetworks' open-source media player...
[June 28, 2004, 16:45]
News Schmooze: Record companies smack Net users
News While the first billion ran on a variety of operating systems, including the ones that powered the Altair and the Amstrad in the 1970s and 1980s, most of the next billion appear likely to run one version or another of Windows, the Big Mac of the...
[July 5, 2002, 11:35]
Nasa's fresh hopes for moon mission
News And, with a programme called Constellation now in its third year, Nasa wants to land people on the moon in 2020 and then create an outpost — a "toehold on the frontier", according to John Connolly, head of engineering for the bigger Altair lunar...
[July 22, 2009, 12:00]
