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The Altair 8800 is a microcomputer designed in 1974 by MITS and based on the Intel 8080 CPU.

Interest grew quickly after it was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue (published in late November 1974) of Popular Electronics, and was sold by mail order through advertisements there, in Radio-Electronics, and in other hobbyist magazines.

The designers hoped to sell a few hundred build-it-yourself kits to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold thousands in the first month.

The Altair also appealed to individuals and businesses that just wanted a computer and purchased the assembled version.

The Altair is widely recognized as the spark that ignited the microcomputer revolution as the first commercially successful personal computer.

The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in the form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC.

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