Mits Altair 8800 - world's first personal computer - for sale!

[AfroSamuraiTheMaster]

So, I presume this cannot run Battlefield 3/Crysis 2 on highest settings?

[nathan3227]

what the hell?????

[MrPhins01]

i was thinking "were is the screen...."

[gbling88]

how does it work?

[SuperMuddiger]

@oldskoolgamereveiws 75 and it was 621$ to 1500$ pre built the kit price was 439$ to 1342$ it ranges alot 

[TheQuindecillion]

Is the only output in the form of LED's, or could you somehow hook up a monitor to it?

[SuperMuddiger]

@TheQuindecillion no its leds but im selling one if you still like it i just bought one for 2.50$ at a garage sale and will sell it sometime soon

[bubbleheadft]

@TheQuindecillion They made input/output devices for it later on, but you may want to hold out for someone smarter than me if you want to know how they worked, or what kind they were.

[TeamRocketReviews]

@oldskoolgamereveiws 1975. I don't exactly know how much, probably expensive. You do have to add a terminal display and 8 inch disk drives, which would add to the cost.

[vincentderome]

your altair is to old to function correctly, when you put switches, does not do big thinks.

[arzoo82]

Wasn't it the Kenbak-1?

[nerfmyaccount]

@SNESkun BTW my first exposure to binary programming was actually the videogame minecraft lol. Search on youtube for "Ohm's 16-bit Minecraft Computer" you can code in true 16 bit binary instructions by setting 1s and 0s with torches. I'm sure there's emulators and stuff but I like the macro-sized simulation.

[nerfmyaccount]

@SNESkun the switches set the electric current signal feeding into the cpu, current is either on or off (1 or 0). The CPU architecture uses the input current, called the input instruction, and uses logic gates built out of transistors to do pre-defined behavior based on that input. An 8 bit CPU can take an 8 bit instruction, so like 10011011. Modern software compiles to 32 bit binary instructions fed into the cpu the same way after being loaded into memory by the OS.

[andyluzeckyj]

What was the computers purpas? What is it supposed to do? Very cool by the way.

[bubbleheadft]

@andyluzeckyj It was the first of it's kind. It was to demonstrate that the technology was here, and to entertain nerds with flashing LEDs.

[macgeek21]

@OBSysteme i know that but this video has no educational value unless you like watching people flip buttons.

[macgeek21]

what was that? clicking buttons?

[Totalysober]

What is this even good for?

[MrLastkill3r]

@vengeanceunlimited11 Can connect monitor if i remember, but it doesn't run dos, only a primitive BASIC.

[Chriss11196]

0,1 MhZ? O.o

[alker33]

@oldskoolgamereveiws

do you mean the auction? The auction on ebay (alker33 is my ebay name) will start on 25th november 2010