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| | Altair 8800 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080A CPU. | | | Today the Altair is widely recognized as the spark that led to the personal computer revolution of the next few years: The computer bus designed for the Altair was to become a de facto standard in form of the S-100 bus, and the first programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC. | | | Programming the Altair was an extremely tedious process where one toggled the switches to positions corresponding to an 8080 opcode, then used a special switch to enter the code into the machine's memory, and then repeated this step until all the opcodes of a presumably complete and correct program was in place. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800
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| | Altair History |
| | Minicomputers cost more than the Altair and IBM Mainframe computers and Super Computers were very expensive. | | | The Altair was called a "Hobbyist Computer" because few users could afford enough parts and peripherals to built a "complete" computer system. | | | The Altair was not called a Personal Computer. |
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http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/vac_history.asp
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| | The MITS Altair |
| | The Altair was not the first personal computer. | | | The MITS Altair is perhaps the most famous early computer. | | | The Altair did not start the computer hobbyist movement. |
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http://www.blinkenlights.com/altair.shtml
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| | fUSION Anomaly. Altair 8800 |
| | Although it was short-lived, the Altair is considered the first successful personal computer, which were then called home computers. | | | The January edition of Popular Electronics featured the Altair 8800 computer kit, based on Intel's 8080 microprocessor, on its cover. | | | The Altair was based on the 8-bit Intel 8080 microprocessor, had 256 bytes of random access |
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http://fusionanomaly.net/altair8800.html
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| | Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science: Altair History |
| | Featured on the cover was the computer that jump-started the computer hobbyist movement and set the course for the personal computer revolution. | | | It turned the Altair into a real computer, capable of solving real-world problems, and exciting computer hobbyists where ever it was demonstrated. | | | But a copy of Altair BASIC that was stolen at a hobbyist club meeting sparked the first major software piracy controversy, causing Bill Gates to write an open letter to computer hobbyists, which really stirred up the animals, and began an ethics debate on software copying that still continues on today. |
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http://onlineethics.org/contest/altair
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| | Personal Computer Milestones |
| | The Altair, introduced in January 1975, was the first computer to be produced in fairly high quantity, and it was the first computer to run Microsoft software, but we're not sure that's a good thing. | | | Like the Altair, it was available from the manufacturer both as a kit and as a pre-assembled computer. | | | Unfortunately for computer history buffs, the Altair is often mistakenly called the first personal computer by Microsoft-loving journalists who don't know any better. |
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http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
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| | November 2001 Antenna |
| | From a social perspective, however, the Altair was the first computer that individuals owned, another reason many consider it the first personal computer. | | | Many historians and journalists consider the Altair to have been the first personal computer because it led to the beginning of software giant Microsoft and the formation of today’s personal computer industry. | | | Roberts is the father of the first personal computer, the Altair. |
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http://www.mercurians.org/nov_2001/first_pc.html
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| | MITS Altair 8800 computer |
| | The Altair 8800, from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) of Albuquerque, NM, was first featured in the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics. | | | Numerous computers from other manufacturers were designed around the S-100 bus - the IMSAI 8800 was the first - the first computer clone. | | | This became a very popular method of making computers, and the Altair bus became an industry standard, but MITS didn't appreciate it being renamed as the S-100 bus. |
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http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html
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| | Altair on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Altair 8800 Computer The first successful microcomputer and the first commercial computer that came with a Micro. | | | Altair Engineering Announces 2nd Annual Optimization Technology Conference and Call For Presentations. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/A/Altair.asp
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| | Altair Engineering in Sweden |
| | The suite, Altair® HyperWorks®, is a comprehensive set of tools that enable designers and engineers to efficiently model and study complex structures and assemblies to optimize design performance. | | | Altair Sweden offers a complete engineering software environment, Altair® HyperWorks®, for modelling, visualization, simulation, optimization, automation and manufacturing feasibility. | | | The business line's flagship product, PBS Pro, is a workload balancing tool that optimizes the utilization of computing environments by intelligently aggregating and scheduling computational resources through a robust, scalable, open architecture software solution. |
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http://www.altair.se/corporat/co.htm
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| | Altair Engineering |
| | As the developer of Altair® HyperWorks® - The Engineering Framework for Product DesignTM, Altair is the leading provider of high-end, open architecture Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) software for modeling, visualization, optimization and process automation. | | | , Altair is the leading provider of high-end, open CAE software solutions for modeling, visualization, optimization and process automation. | | | Through product design consulting, advanced engineering software and high performance computing technologies, Altair Engineering increases innovation for clients around the globe. |
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http://www.altair.com/corporat/press/20041005.htm
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| | The MITS Altair 8800 |
| | Considered by many to be the first microcomputer, the MITS altair 8800 was based on a 2 MHz Intel 8080 with 256 bytes standard RAM and interfaced with the user through the octal front panel switches. | | | The first Altairs came with only 256 bytes of memory; they also lacked output devices such as printers. | | | All programming was in the machine code of binary digits. |
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http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~csclub/museum/items/mits_altair_8800.html
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| | HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things |
| | The Altair was a "hobbyist" computer because customers had to construct the machine from a kit. | | | As sold, the Altair was programmed in direct binary code, using the toggle switches on the front panel to enter one's and zero's. | | | The designation "8800" referred to the fact that the computer used the new Intel 8080 chip. |
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http://historywired.si.edu/object.cfm?ID=339
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| | Computer History Museum - Exhibits - Collection Highlights - Altair BASIC Paper Tape |
| | The Altair was a computer kit that appeared as the cover story of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. | | | Altair BASIC was the first mass-produced commercial program written by Gates's company, known at the time as "Micro Soft." | | | This paper tape contains the first version of a BASIC language interpreter written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen for the MITS Altair 8800 computer while both were students at Harvard University. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/basic.shtml
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| | MITS Altair 8800 |
| | The Altair 8800 was far from the first "Personal Computer" but it was the first truly successful one. | | | These are of the bare MITS 4 slot motherboards as originally shipped with the Altair computers (both top and bottom) and of the Altair front panel. | | | I have one altair 8800 computer i wish to sell fast no resonable offers will be refused. |
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http://www.vintage-computer.com/altair8800.shtml
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| | IEEEVM: Altair, Computer in a Kit |
| | It was computer hobbyists who first built such a device, and the first hobbyist kit for a microprocessor-based computer was the Altair 8800—which used the Intel 8800 chip—offered for the first time in January 1975. | | | There was no keyboard or display; the hobbyist programmed the computer using a panel of switches and read the output from a panel of neon bulbs. | | | The computer had no keyboard and no display; it was programmed with the switches on the front panel. |
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http://www.ieee-virtual-museum.org/collection/event.php?taid=&id=3456897&lid=1
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| | The Online Software Museum |
| | On January 2nd, 1975, only days after the stunning announcement of the Altair kit computer in Popular Electronics magazine had been delivered into the hands of its eager subscribers, a letter was on its way to MITS from two Harvard students, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. | | | But this, Altair Disk Extended BASIC version 4.1, was almost all personally written by the two future tycoons. | | | It was the "high-end" of the MITS software line, "Altair Disk Extended BASIC". |
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http://museum.sysun.com/museum/althist.html
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| | microsoft's timeline from 1975 - 1990 |
| | The MITS Altair inspired a new generation of technology enthusiasts, including Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were among the first of these early hobbyists to realize that the key to the future of personal computing lay in the unlimited potential of software. | | | Using the Altair's published specifications, Gates and Allen created a simulator on a DEC PDP-10 computer that allowed it to emulate the MITS machine. | | | MITS promotes Altair BASIC, the computer language developed by Gates and Allen for the Altair computer. |
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http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm
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| | PRESS RELEASE Altair Nanotechnologies Provides Shareholder Update |
| | Altair expects additional funding in 2004 for energy and DOD related projects. | | | The new technology is based on the "FFC Cambridge" process developed by Cambridge University. | | | A three-party agreement is being reviewed by the Nevada University system, which is already involved in hydrogen development, for a demonstration project for Tandem CellTM technology. |
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http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=60228
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| | Apple II History Chap 1 |
| | The difficulty MITS had in supplying the demand for computers also led to the creation of other similar computers that used the 8080. | | | Roberts and the editor, Les Solomon, decided to call the computer the "Altair 8800"; it measured 18-inches deep by 17 inches wide by 7 inches high, and it weighed in at a massive 256 bytes (that's one fourth of a "K"). | | | All this was promised from a computer that came "complete" with only 256 bytes of memory (expandable if you could afford it) and no keyboard, monitor, or storage device. |
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http://apple2history.org/history/ah01.html
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| | Bill Gates: Before Microsoft |
| | If the Altair simulation he designed or any of Gates's code was faulty, the demonstration would most likely have ended in failure. | | | The two knew that the home computer market was about to explode and that someone would need to make software for the new machines. | | | They had neither an Altair nor the chip that ran the computer. |
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http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Gates.Mirick.html
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| | In January 1975, Popular Electronics magazine's cover featured a picture of the Altair 8800 computer - the world's first microcomputer which used the new Intel 8080 processor - sold mail order by a tiny company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. | | | People sent checks in sight unseen - completely on the faith they Ed Roberts realized that his Altair 8800 computer needed software - a computer language - to make it really useful. | | | Things never settled down - in one day they sold 200 computers over the phone. |
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http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/1975malt.htm
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| | PC History |
| | The reaction to the Altair was un-expected by either the magazine or by MITS who designed it. | | | It supplanted the Altair A model as the standard S-100 Bus computer. | | | The Imsai 8080 developed by IMS Associates, was designed to use the same bus structure as the Altair 8800 with interchangeable circuit boards. |
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http://www.pc-history.org
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| | Altair Administration |
| | He is responsible for Altair’s sophisticated hardware and software, as well as the creation of the electronic audit forms used on most of Altair’s reviews. | | | Cynthia also has an interest in computers and earned her Master Certificate in Microsoft Office. | | | Ray Liscombe has been with the company since 1994. |
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| | Workload Management and Grid Computing from Altair Engineering UK |
| | Our Enterprise Computing division provides grid-enabled software solutions including Altair PBS Pro and e-Compute to help clients optimise the utilisation of their hardware and software assets. | | | Workload Management and Grid Computing from Altair Engineering UK Please note that email addresses on this site are protected to avoid abuse by spammers. | | | Feature-rich yet affordable workload management tool for distributed computing. |
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http://www.uk.altair.com/gridindex.htm
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| | Product Design & Development - Altair Engineering UK - CAE Software |
| | In grid computing, our technologies such as PBS Pro allow organisations from any industry to more effectively manage their distributed IT resources. | | | Product Design and Development - Altair Engineering UK - CAE Software | | | You will need a JavaScript-enabled browser to see the email addresses. |
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| | MITS Altair Systems |
| | The MITS Altair microcomputer was the first personal computer available and sold in commercial quantities. | | | Sold as both kits and as assembled units, MITS called the computer system boxes "Main Frames" and featured both Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 CPU powered units. | | | In this section, I have reproduced in HTML format some of the MITS Altair general information and sales documents, brochures and some price lists. |
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http://rwebs.net/micros/altair
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |
| | Another computer which had almost the same characteristics was launched by IMSAI and was called IMSAI 8080 (see both in the "Emulators" section). | | | MITS made several peripherals and cards for this computer, namely, a video card, a serial card to connect a terminal, a RAM expansion card and a 8" floppy drive that used hard sectored floppies and stored 300 KB. | | | The ALTAIR 8800 had one input port, also called the "Sense Switches" (I/O address 255) which was the left hand 8 address switches. |
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=62
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| | History Repeats at Altair [Fool.com: Commentary] May 31, 2005 |
| | So, while I appreciate CEO Alan Gotcher's time in presenting James Early and me with the standard "Altair is poised for growth" PowerPoint show and answering some tough questions, my opinion has not changed. | | | In fact, I might be even more pessimistic now. | | | Either Altair is not the only player in this market, as some investors might think, or Toshiba is working with Altair on the sly. |
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http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05053105.htm
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| | DigiBarn: Altair 8800 System (1975) |
| | By the time I was done playing with it, my Altair had floppy disk drives and other refinements. | | | I think I had a few other useful options in this monitor-type program as well. | | | This is it folks, the original MITS Altair 8800 (approx serial number 3000). |
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http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/altair-8800
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| | MITS Altair 8800 |
| | The MITS Altair 8800 is widely known as the first real personal computer. | | | See below for specifications and information on this system. | | | Altair 8800 computer: $439 kit, $621 assembled (includes CPU board, front panel control board, power supply, and expander board) |
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http://www.computercloset.org/MITSAltair8800.htm
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| | Altair |
| | For more information about stars including spectral and luminosity class codes, go to ChView's webpage on The Stars of the Milky Way. | | | With a telescope, an optical companion may be visible. | | | According to Holweger et al (1999), this dust disk may have developed after most of the surrounding nebulae of gas has been absorbed or expelled as a shell of gas from the developing star before it reached the main sequence. |
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http://www.solstation.com/stars/altair.htm
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| | Computer |
| | The Altair was the most popular early personal computer. | | | The invention of the personal computer is having an effect on our lives equal to, if not greater than, that of the electric light bulb, telegraph, and telephone. | | | It was programmed by flipping switches on the front panel. |
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http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/r823.htm
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| | Altair Electronics - AVG AntiVirus Software |
| | Altair Home / PC / AVG AntiVirus Software | | | Altair Electronics Ltd. A Canadian based company, is an authorized Reseller of the AVG Anti-Virus Product range - manufactured by Grisoft. | | | All purchased Licences include 2 years of Email based technical support. |
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| | Altair. |
| | He will avoid nothing in order to achieve them. | | | Variations of Altair were Althair, Athair, Attair, Atair; Alcair, Alchayr, and Alcar. | | | Antinous is now taken as part of this constellation. |
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http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/Altair.html
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| | IMSAI 8080 |
| | Generally accepted as the second personal computer, after the Altair, the Imsai was much more popular. | | | It also received more fame, with a starring role in the seminal movie War Games. | | | Power supply is on the right, cards in the S-100 bus are on the left. |
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http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/imsai
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| | Altair Home Page |
| | Send comments, corrections and new information to the Altair Webmaster | | | You need Adobe Reader to view the newsletter. | | | Altair disclaims all responsibility for any improper or illegal |
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| | ALTAIR (U) |
| | ALTAIR (U) Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA) Long-range Tracking and Identification Radar (ALTAIR) (U) Overview (U): | | | ALTAIR is a near earth and deep space tracking radar. | | | As one of the three radars composing the Space Surveillance Network, ALTAIR can track one third of the objects in the geosynchronous belt, more than 42,000 tracks per year. |
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http://www.fas.org/spp/military/program/nssrm/initiatives/altair.htm
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| | Altair Avionics Ground Station : Welcome to Altair Avionics |
| | Altair's low-cost, integrated hardware and software solution provides aircraft owners/operators with critical aircraft performance data used to reduce maintenance and operating costs. | | | Altair is a leading supplier of aircraft sensing, engine monitoring, data acquisition, data management and trend analysis systems. | | | Altair's products make an Integrated End-to-End Aircraft Data Management solution a reality. |
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| | Altair - Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum |
| | Build a Quantum Tunnel on your kitchen table. | | | Altair Lab Notes, miscellaneous research and lab experiments. | | | Contributions are made with the understanding that they will be public domain only for non-commercial use. |
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| | AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS |
| | The ALTAIR, a high altitude version of the Predator B, was specifically designed as an unmanned platform for both scientific and commercial research missions that require endurance, reliability and increased payload capacity. | | | ALTAIR is currently being integrated with an automated collision avoidance system as well as an air traffic control voice relay that will increase responsiveness and communication for flights in National Airspace. | | | Marked as the first remotely piloted aircraft that will meet aviation authority requirements for unmanned flights in National Air Space, ALTAIR is configured with a fault-tolerant dual-architecture flight control system and triple redundant avionics for increased reliability. |
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http://www.uav.com/products/Altair.html
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| | Altair |
| | Observation with a sophisticated interferometer, from which the angular size of the star is measured, reveals a 14% oblateness. | | | First magnitude (0.77) Altair, the 13th brightest star in the sky and the Alpha star of | | | Altair has also recently been identified as a subtle "Delta Scuti) variable, the brightest in the sky, the star flickering by a few thousandths of a magnitude with nine different periods that range from 50 minutes to 9 hours. |
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http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/~kaler/sow/altair.html
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| | Mir Altair |
| | Altair: From 4.07 until 22.07.93 Haignere, in co-operation with his Russian colleagues, will conduct experiments in the framework of the French scientific program Altair. | | | was able to execute the French scientific program Altair. | | | Good images of the complex (by Soyuz-TM17's cameras) and the docking port could be seen. |
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http://www.astronautix.com/flights/mirltair.htm
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| | altair filter technology |
| | Altair is a leading international manufacturer of advanced air filtration and silencing systems specialising in Gas Turbine technology, servicing a wide variety of markets and diverse applications. | | | Altair To Supply Gas Turbine Air Filtration Systems To Korea Navy Program | | | Altair prides itself on technical innovation, customer driven solutions and the ability to deliver quality products and service to an expanding client base. |
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http://www.altair-filters.com
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| | Altair Engineering |
| | Image must be for models created using Altair Engineering products | | | Inclusion of company or brand logo is permitted; however, the logo should always be in the lower left corner of the page and should represent no larger than 1/64 of overall image size | | | For customers contributing Technical Papers, you may participate with the CAE model images from the papers. |
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http://www.altair-india.com/events/may05/altair_lsdyna.html
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| | NASA Dryden Altair Predator B Photo Collection |
| | Technicians at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., (GA-ASI) facility at Adelanto, Calif., carefully install a turboprop engine to the rear fuselage of NASA's Altair aircraft during final assembly operations. | | | Technicians at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., (GA-ASI) facility at Adelanto, Calif., carefully thread control lines through a bulkhead during engine installation on NASA's Altair aircraft. | | | Long wings, a V-tail with a ventral fin and a rear-mounted engine distinguish the Altair, an unmanned aerial vehicle built for NASA by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. |
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http://www1.dfrc.nasa.gov/gallery/photo/Altair_PredatorB
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| | index |
| | Walking in the Garden of the Mind - S Masson | | | Winner of WWBS # 1 is Sasha Cavaro - well done Sasha | | | Altair Australia Pty Ltd are proud supporters of the Peter McNamara Achievement Award. |
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http://www.altair-australia.com
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| | ALTAIR Part 2 - The Lockheed File |
| | A hand-written "Summary of Flight Trials" appears in the file for VH-USB. | | | This fuselage will be used for the Kingsford-Smith Altair, and will require an S1D1 engine and a controllable pitch propeller. | | | Note that this license describes the aeroplane as an Altair 8E whereas all other documents have it as an Altair 8D (Special). |
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http://www.adastron.com/lockheed/altair/altair2.htm
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| | DND/CF : Operations : Current Ops : Operation ALTAIR |
| | Location : Home » Operations » Current Ops » Operation ALTAIR | | | Due to operational requirements elsewhere, there may be periods when there is no Canadian maritime contribution to OEF. | | | DND/CF : Operations : Current Ops : Operation ALTAIR |
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http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/operations/altair/index_e.asp
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