50 Years Later

Wayne Parham · Post by **Wayne Parham** » December 24th, 2024, 12:13 pm

This is an exciting week. It was 50 years ago this week - the week before Christmas in 1974 - when "Popular Electronics" issued its most popular issue of all time.

The reason for its popularity is that this is the issue that introduced the Altair 8800.

Post by **AltairClone** » December 25th, 2024, 8:01 am

Crazy how time flies by

Wayne Parham · Post by **Wayne Parham** » December 26th, 2024, 11:00 am

So true!

It seems like "a while back" but it doesn't seem that long ago!

I still fondly remember those magazines, Popular Electronics, Byte, and the processor-specific ones too. Wasn't so long ago!

Thanks for keeping it alive, Mike!

Wayne

Jefferjs · Post by **Jefferjs** » January 28th, 2025, 8:24 am

I feel very privileged to have been part of this era it was because of this I have had a very successful IT career my only regret was that at the time these kits came out I was unable to afford one.

Post by **AltairClone** » January 30th, 2025, 9:21 pm

Very similar life experience for me as well :)

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