Computers and People: Personal Computation
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Turkle, Sherry
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In the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, MITs, short for Micro Instrumentation and Telementry System, a small computer company in Albequerque, New Mexico, announced the Altair, a computer small enough to sit on a desktop, powerful enough to support high level language programming, and that you could build for only $429.
Date issued
1980-12Series/Report no.
MIT-LCS-TR-249