As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

The angular diameter of Altair was measured interferometrically by R. Hanbury Brown and his co-workers at Narrabri Observatory in the 1960s.

This phenomenon, known as gravity darkening or the von Zeipel effect, was confirmed for Altair by measurements made by the Navy Prototype Optical Interferometer in 2001, and analyzed by Ohishi et al.

Japan Airlines's Starjet 777-200 JA8983 was named Altair.

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

The Altair 8800 was one of the first microcomputers intended for home use.

The first Altair version was co-written by Gates, Allen, and Monte Davidoff.

The Intel 4004 was a 4-bit processor released in 1971, but in 1973 the Intel 8080, an 8-bit processor, made the first personal computer, the Altair 8800, possible.

In fact, when Bill Gates ' version of BASIC for the Altair was shared among the hacker community, Gates claimed to have lost a considerable sum of money because few users paid for the software.

Rigel was known as Yerrerdet-kurrk to the Wotjobaluk koori of southeastern Australia, and held to be the mother-in-law of Totyerguil ( Altair ).

The combination of CP / M and S-100 bus computers loosely patterned on the MITS Altair was an early " industry standard " for microcomputers, and this computer platform was widely used in business through the late 1970s and into the mid-1980s, expanding to include 16-bit CPUs and multiuser capability.

Of the early " box of switches "- type microcomputers, the MITS Altair 8800 ( 1975 ) was arguably the most famous.

Although the Altair itself was only a mild commercial success, it helped spark a huge industry.

The first to establish a de facto standard was the Altair 8800, developed 1974-1975.

The first meeting was held in March 1975 in French's garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, on the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Altair microcomputer, a unit sent for review by People's Computer Company.

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

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.

In 1975, early personal computers based on inexpensive microprocessors, such as the MITS Altair and later TRS-80, Apple II and others began to dominate the market for small general purpose computers.

Fullmer later helped define the industry standard for Altair compatible boards, the S-100 Bus standard.

Although not very commercially successful, the Mark-8 prompted the editors of Popular Electronics magazine to consider publishing a similar but more easily accessible microcomputer project, and just six months later, in January 1975, they went through with their plans announcing the Altair 8800.

The experience gained in this venture would later be used to write Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 computer and start Microsoft.

Early examples include the Altair 8800 from the United States and the later British Newbear 77-68 and Nascom designs from the late 70's and early 80's.

Kingsford Smith continued the theme with his later aircraft Southern Cross Minor and Southern Cross Junior ( both Avro Avians ), Miss Southern Cross ( Percival Gull ), and Lady Southern Cross ( Lockheed Altair ).

Two major novae have been observed in Aquila: the first one was in 389 BC and was recorded as being as bright as Venus ; the other ( Nova Aquilae 1918 ) briefly shone brighter than Altair, the brightest star in Aquila.

Competing machines such as the Altair 8800 generally were programmed with front-mounted toggle switches and used indicator lights ( red LEDs, most commonly ) for output, and had to be extended with separate hardware to allow connection to a computer terminal or a teletypewriter machine.

This rapid rotation forces Altair to be oblate ; its equatorial diameter is over 20 percent greater than its polar diameter.

realized that Altair would be rotationally flattened, they had insufficient data to experimentally observe its oblateness.

He had seen BASIC on minicomputers and felt it would be the perfect match for new machines like the MITS Altair 8800.

Its external design has been reported to be the direct inspiration for the front panel of the MITS Altair ( 1975 ) microcomputer.

Vega can be identified easily because Altair and its two neighbouring stars form a line which points at Vega.

During this time the Ares I and Orion as well as the Altair Lunar Lander were to be under development ( although now these programs have been canceled ).

The earliest models such as the Altair 8800 were often sold as kits to be assembled by the user, and came with as little as 256 bytes of RAM, and no input / output devices other than indicator lights and switches, useful as a proof of concept to demonstrate what such a simple device could do.

He had seen BASIC on minicomputers and felt it would be the perfect match for new machines like the MITS Altair 8800, which had been released in January 1975.

The S-100 bus or Altair bus, IEEE696-1983 ( withdrawn ), was an early computer bus designed in 1974 as a part of the Altair 8800, generally considered today to be the first personal computer ( or at least the first microcomputer, as it was designed for hobbyists rather than the general public ).

) Key concepts include what would come to be known as the Gaia hypothesis, pantheism, and a Christlike " world leader " living on the planet " Altair " ( or " Stellair "), who radiates spiritual guidance by means of telepathy.

They wanted to be the first to offer BASIC for the Altair computer and the software development tools they had previously created for their Intel 8008 microprocessor based Traf-O-Data computer would give them a head start.

Dompier wrote a program that was able to play simple musical melodies on the Altair that could be heard on a radio because of electrical interference.

Altair, like the LM, is not reusable ; the ascent stage would be discarded after use.

The Altair descent stage was to be powered by four RL-10 rocket engines that are used for the Centaur upper stage used on the Atlas V rocket.

Unlike the current RL-10 engines in use, the newer RL-10s would be able to throttle down to as low as 10 % rated thrust ( the current specifications allow for 20 %), thus allowing the use of Altair for both the lunar orbit insertion ( LOI ) and landing stages of the lunar mission.

The Ares V / EDS / Altair stack would be assembled at the Vehicle Assembly Building and then transported to Pad A of Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39.

The Ares V / EDS / Altair vehicle would be launched first, into a high circular orbit.

IMSAI produced a machine similar to the Altair 8800, though considered by many to be a more robust design.

While the camera kit was designed to use an oscilloscope the article mentions it could be connected to the Altair computer.