Vintage Computer Memory Card 1Kilobyte from MITS Altair 8800 Microcomputer

Vintage Computer Memory MITS Altair 8800 Computer located
in 'Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum' Floyd Virginia

http://www.floydfolks.org - Information about Appalachia - where this museum collection is located Floyd Virginia

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The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU and sold by mail order through advertisements in Popular Electronics, Radio-Electronics and other hobbyist magazines. The designers hoped to sell only a few hundred build-it-yourself kits to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold thousands in the first month.[1] The Altair also appealed to individuals and businesses who just wanted a computer and purchased the assembled version.[2] Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the microcomputer revolution of the next few years: 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.[3][4] (Wikipedia) the MITS 8800 microcomputer is part of the LCF Group -Bugbook Computer Museum

In computing, memory refers to the physical devices used to store programs (sequences of instructions) or data (e.g. program state information) on a temporary or permanent basis for use in a computer or other digital electronic device. The term primary memory is used for the information in physical systems which are fast (i.e. RAM), as a distinction from secondary memory, which are physical devices for program and data storage which are slow to access but offer higher memory capacity

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Altair 8800 Microcomputer - links discussed in this video

What is memory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer...

The Altair Microcomputer 8800 info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

Altair 8800 Resource information http://www.retrotechnology.com/herbs_...

8800 Computer - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800

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The LCF Group consist of David Larsen KK4WW, Gaynell Larsen KK4WWW and Dee Wallace KG4VMI. We are all radio amateurs and also are Directors of The Foundation for Amateur International Radio Service ( FAIRS) also located in Floyd Virginai. N4USA is the radio call for FAIRS and we have operated in Dominica as J79WW J79WWW J79VMI and many other countries. We are members of The Floyd Amateur Radio Society FARS. The LCF Group ( 1-540-745-2322 ) Floyd Virginia