Sunday, April 10, 2005

Popular Electronics / January 1975 Edition

Please don't tell anybody [;-)]- but I am currently bidding for an original Popular Electronics January 1975 Edition on eBay.



Yes, that's the one where MITS announced the Altair 8800, the one issue that Paul Allen happened to notice at a local newsstand on Harvard Square, Cambridge (Allen was working for Honeywell in nearby Boston at that time). He bought it and showed to Bill Gates at his friend's dorm room. "It [the PC revolution] is going to happen", Gates knew. Here was their opportunity to do something with Basic...