The Altair 8800 - inspired a generation

The Smithsonian Museum describes the as the machine that “inaugurated the personal computer age.”

After appearing on the cover of *Popular Electronics* in January 1975, demand exploded.
Ed Roberts had hoped to sell about 200 units, within months MITS had a backlog of 4,000 orders.

The success didn't just start the personal-computer revolution,
it helped spawn computer clubs, stores, magazines and an ecosystem of add-on hardware. And inspired a generation:

MITS hired Bill Gates and Paul Allen to write the Altair BASIC interpreter. They founded Microsoft so they could send an invoice.
Steve Wozniak was inspired to design the Apple-I, and together with Steve Jobs founded Apple in 1976
Don French bought an and convinced his employer Tandy/Radio Shack to develop and sell its own computer.
The TRS-80 Model I launched in 1977, sold 250.000+ units, becoming the best-selling personal computer of the 70s.

Flip some switches and relive the 1975 thrill.
If you grew up on TikTok, keep flipping that "single step" switch and feel the wonder your grandfather felt
when a blinking LED was more exciting than a million likes.

native HTML Web Components - available since 2016

The working simulator is created with a single <altair-8800> Custom Element HTML tag (aka Web Component)
The 2 main components are <display-bit-led> for the LED lamps and <toggle-switch> for the switches.

Explore the full source on GitHub to learn how all Web Components are build.
As an extra front-end challenge count how many <div> elements are used in this page. (spoiler alert: none)