Altair 8080 - Bill Gate's Altair BASIC

The Altair was the first computer released to the public in January 1975 (check here for history) by MITS, it was a very ugly machine that could only be coded in machine/assembly language by flipping switches. Basically saying: "Real Programmer's Don't Need Keyboards!"

Bill Gates & Paul Allen wrote Altair BASIC which was Microsoft's first product.

I downloaded the Altair emulator and stuggled to get it working but after awhile I finally got it working coding my first "Hello World!" in Altair BASIC!! This is so good to use the first computer and popular programming language.

How to use:

• Run the Altair emulator.
• Load the disk with the Altair BASIC image.
• Toggle (that is on e.g. binary 1) all keys from A15 - A8, A7 to A0 must be down.
  
• Toggle EXAMINE
• Toggle down A15 - A8
• Toggle RUN
• A console window will open with the Altair BASIC running.