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ALTAIR: Virtual Storage At The Industrial Level

White Papers The Altaļr data processing center is located in Lognes, a suburb of Paris. Data storage, with its large space requirements, was Larcade's major concern. In 1997, Larcade launched a study that led Altaļr to virtual tape storage.

[January 2, 2006, 23:00]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

FTP DOWNLOAD! CRACKED SOFTWARE/SOFTWARE CRACKS/WAREZ CD/DONGLE EMULATORS/DONGLE

Forum ALTAIR HYPERWORKS V7.0 SP1 Our team provide different types of services such as: proffessional cracking of any kind of software (CAD,CAM,CAE,EDA,GIS,PCB,FEA,FEM,CNC,CFD,PDS,3D,Optics etc.designed for any kind of operating systems(Windows 95/98/ME...

[June 2, 2006, 21:44]

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]

Gates To Step Down From Microsoft

News Gates, 50, founded Microsoft in 1975 with high-school friend Paul Allen to sell a version of the Basic programming language for the Altair computer. Gates announced on Thursday that he will gradually relinquish his current role, ceding the title of...

[June 16, 2006, 8:25]

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]