You can forget about the IBM Personal Computer and drop all the pretense about the 1984 Apple Macintosh. When it comes to which personal computer is the most influential of all time, there can only be ...

TROY -- Altair Engineering Inc. Wednesday released the first version of its popular HyperWorks computer-aided engineering software suite that is designed to run on Mac OS X. The Mac version offers the ...

Ed Roberts, the maker of the world’s first personal computer, died yesterday at the age of 68. Roberts created the Altair 8800, the first computer normal people could a) afford and b) use in their ...

Owning a piece of computer history can be expensive and not much fun. You can buy a vintage MITS Altair 8800, one of the world’s first successful desktop computers, on eBay, but a good one will cost ...

"I don't need the money, I wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't really intellectually interesting for me." Jim Scapa, founder and chief executive of software maker Altair Engineering, was explaining ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ed Roberts, an engineer who helped develop a precursor to the modern ...

1974: The Altair 8800 microcomputer goes on sale. It doesn't offer much, but it's the small start of a big trend toward small things. A small New Mexico company — with the big name of Micro ...

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 personal computer that inspired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to enter the software business, has died aged 68. “We are deeply saddened by the passing of ...

TROY -- Altair, a provider of simulation technology and engineering services, announced Tuesday that it had broadened its relationship with Siemens PLM Software to enable closer collaboration in the ...

In this age of smartphone zombification, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when most people had never seen or touched a computer. When I grew up in the 1970s, we didn't have a computer.

While Windows-based systems have some tools available that can mimic a Unix-like environment, they often come with limitations to their capabilities, especially when working with large files.