Tag archive: Altair

The technology industry is mourning Ed Roberts, who died on Thursday, April 1, 2010, from pneumonia at the age of 68. Roberts was an unlikely technology hero, but his contributions to the computing industry can't really be underestimated: in 1975, his company Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) introduced the Altair 8800, a screenless personal computer with a whopping 256 bytes of memory, based on the then brand-new Intel… Read More

Montreal video game maker Ubisoft announced today that its developing a wholly original video game franchise under the name Assassin's Creed or the Playstation 3. The first game in the Assassin's Creed series will be set in the year 1191 AD, during the Third Crusade. Players will take on the role of Altair and will have the power to “throw their immediate environment into chaos” and influence historical evens. The… Read More