Popular Electronics, et. al.
All of the Popular Electronics magazines from 1954 to 1982- http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Popular-Electronics-Guide.htm Looking around, that site has a *ton* of magazines- http://www.americanra...
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wa8yxm wrote:
Popular Electronics was a great Mag.
In fact the first Home computer,, was a design (how to build) Published in Popular Electronics.. you could build one from the plans they published or...
3ofthe editors formed a company MITS, not to be confused with MIT). and sold a kit
(ALTIR 8080 if I spelled it correctly) making it easier. ...
It was not a home computer but a mini computer, the Altair 8800, and the plans were published in the Jan 1975 issue of the magazine. I have that issue tucked away somewhere because I wanted to build it but couldn't afford the price of the kit.
Altair 8800
