And that was 1975 cash. In equivalent terms, that Altair kit would cost $2000 today. The ELF, on the other hand, could be put together on a piece of perf board. If you had to buy everything from ...

Roberts called his computer the Altair 8800 and offered it as a kit. It got a good press splash, featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine in January of 1975. The day the magazine came ...