Altair 8800

Rarity: Uncommon

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer introduced in 1974 by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) based on the Intel 8080 CPU. It was the first commercially successful personal computer.

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