Taking out her hairpin, the Goddess scratched a wide river in the sky to separate the two lovers forever, thus forming the Milky Way between Altair and Vega.

In the July 1975 Computer Notes, Bill Gates described this as " the best demo program I've seen for the Altair …" Gates could not figure out how the computer could broadcast to the radio.

As with Wozniak in the earlier segment, Ballmer narrates Gates ' story, particularly the moment when Gates discovers the existence of Ed Roberts ' ( Gailard Sartain ) MITS Altair ( causing him to drop out of Harvard ).

Once joined in low Earth orbit, the three would then travel out to the Moon and the Orion / Altair combination would fly a lunar orbit rendezvous flight pattern.

Other brighter stars such as Altair, Antares, Betelgeuse and Polaris, which are much further out, are also included.

During the preview of the movie when the sounds of the spaceship landing on Altair IV filled the theater, the audience broke out in spontaneous applause.

The company was carved out of The Computer SystemCenter, an early Altair dealer founded by Roberts, Mann, Jim Dunion, and Rich Stafford, which Dyer had joined as the manager and where the first software was published in 1977.

In microcomputers, SWTPC's 6800 and 6809 machines used TSC's FLEX disk operating system, Radio Shack's TRS-80 machines used TRS-DOS, their Color Computer used OS-9, and most of the Intel 8080 based machines from IMSAI, MITS ( makers of the legendary Altair 8800 ), Cromemco, North Star, etc., used the CP / M-80 disk operating system.

See, e. g., Betelgeuse, Red giants, and Vega and Altair.

Altair is located 16. 7 light-years ( 5. 13 parsecs ) from Earth and is one of the closest stars visible to the naked eye.

In astrology, the star Altair was ill-omened, portending danger from reptiles.

Image of Altair from the Palomar Testbed Interferometer.

* Image of Altair from Aladin.

In Chinese mythology, there is a love story of Qi Xi () in which Niu Lang (, Altair ) and his two children ( β and γ Aquilae ) are separated from their mother Zhi Nü (, lit.

Early in the 23rd century, the United Planets Cruiser C57-D travels to the planet Altair IV, 16 light-years from the Earth, to discover the fate of an expedition sent 20 years earlier.

The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU.

The Altair BASIC interpreter was developed by Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates with help from Monte Davidoff, using a self made Intel 8080 software simulator running on a PDP-10 minicomputer.

Many Altair 8800 computer owners skipped the bundled package ; purchased their memory boards from a third party supplier and used a " borrowed " copy of Altair BASIC.

* Editor Art Childs writes about the letter he received from the " author of Altair Basic " and the resulting controversy on propriety software.

Its name comes from the Arabic phrase " shahin-i tarazu ", meaning " the balance "; this name referred to Altair, Alshain, and Tarazed.

The Altair 8800, based on the Intel 8080 microprocessor, only had 256 bytes of memory, but it struck a chord with so many hackers that MITS went from being close to bankruptcy to having millions of dollars worth of orders, and being unable to fulfill the orders in time.

Tiny BASIC: Altair BASIC was an interpreter that translated instructions from the BASIC programming language into assembly instructions that the Altair 8800 could understand.

The Earth Departure Stage ( EDS ) was the main propulsion system that would have sent the Ares V Orion / Altair upper stage from low Earth orbit to the Moon.

Upon receiving clearance from Mission Control, the Altair undocks from the Orion and performs an inspection maneuver, allowing ground controllers to inspect the spacecraft via live TV mounted on Orion for any visible problems that would prevent landing ( on Apollo this was done by the Command Module Pilot ).

After completing their Lunar Sortie operations, the crew enters the Altair and fires the ascent stage engine to lift off from the surface, using the descent stage as a launchpad ( and as a platform for future base construction ).

In the novel Sunstorm, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, the eponymous sunstorm is caused by the impact into the Sun of a gas giant diverted from Altair roughly two thousand years before.

SWTPC and Altair computers from the 70's

In Australian Aboriginal mythology ( see dreamtime ), a Wurundjeri dreamtime story tells of a great eagle ; " the all powerful, ever watchful creator of the world ", named Bunjil, who " once gazed down upon his people from the star Altair and saw their wrong doing.

) Arle Heinessen, reduced to serf status for being a member of a rebel's family, masterminds the escape of 400, 000 serfs from a labour camp on Altair VII.

The price of Altair BASIC to customers who purchased additional memory and I / O boards from MITS was $ 75.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

In addition there are several regional carrier such as OLT and Cirrus Airlines as well as cargo operator such as Lufthansa Cargo and Air Cargo Germany.

** Republic Airlines, a regional air carrier affiliated with US Airways

In 2002 the government merged the nine largest airlines into three regional groups based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, respectively: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, which operate most of China's external flights.

The airport serves three international, twelve domestic, seven charter, and four regional carriers and is a hub and home base for Delta Air Lines, Mesaba Airlines and Sun Country Airlines.

It is hub for the two major Norwegian airlines Scandinavian Airlines System and Norwegian Air Shuttle, and for regional aircraft from Western Norway.

In the 1990s, America West opened an east coast hub at Port Columbus International Airport in Columbus, Ohio, using Chautauqua Airlines to provide commuter and regional flights.

The airport and local officials are in discussion with United Airlines and its regional partner, Colgan Air, to provide 2 daily flights between PGV and Washington Dulles International Airport.

Bar Harbor Airlines, a regional airline, was headquartered in Trenton.

Nippon Cargo Airlines has its Europe regional offices there as well.

The airport and local officials are in discussion with United Airlines and its regional partner, Colgan Air, to provide 2 daily flights between PGV and Washington Dulles.

Mostly cargo and private air operations take place at the airport, although in the past, Mesa Airlines offered regional connections.

* Porter Airlines, Canadian regional airline based in Toronto

Alaska Airlines, along with its regional subsidiary, Horizon Air, is the second largest carrier at the airport.

However, Alaska Airlines announced afterward it would begin new routes to Austin from SJC, and would upgrade service to Portland, Oregon, which was run by regional subsidiary Horizon Air, to commercial jet service which began on September 2, 2009.

In August 1997, a Dornier 228 owned by Royal Brunei Airlines but operated and maintained by Malaysian regional carrier Hornbill Airways, carrying 19 passengers to Miri, crashed into high ground near Miri airport.

In April 2004 Alitalia acquired the bankrupt regional airline Gandalf Airlines to gain additional slots at several European airports, mainly in Milan ( Linate ) and Paris ( Charles De Gaulle ).

Small regional carrier SeaPort Airlines is headquartered and operates its Pacific Northwest hub at PDX.

* CCM Airlines, a regional airline based in Ajaccio, Corsica, France

In 2005, after taking classes near his home in South Florida and working as a flight instructor in his spare time, he was hired as an airline pilot for CommutAir, a Continental Airlines regional affiliate based in Plattsburgh, New York.