The IT Crowd - Season 3 (2008)
There's an 8800 in the pile of equipment behind Moss' desk.
The Altair 8800 is considered by many to be the world's first home computer. Released in 1975 as a kit a pre-assembled, the standard configuration had an 8080 processor and 256 bytes of RAM.
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• The IT Crowd - Season 3 (2008) • Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) • Parker Lewis Can't Lose - Season 1, Episode 12, "Science Fair" (1990)
There's an 8800 in the pile of equipment behind Moss' desk.
Microsoft's first project is developing the BASIC language for it Altair 8800. MITS send them an Altair when their project bears fruit. Altairs also appear at the Homebrew Computer Club.
Principal Musso devotes a whole laboratory to Jerry's work and the equipment available includes a pair of 8800s.
