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ALTAIR

The code that started it all

In 1975 a metal box with switches and blinking lights booted the personal computer revolution — and it existed because of one chip, the Intel 8080. Fifty years later $ALTAIR launches on Mendel.fun, paired against tokenized NVIDIA stock. The first chip you could own, against the chips everyone wants now.

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  • 🚀 Mendel.fun Exclusive
  • ✦ Paired with NVDA
  • </> Robinhood Chain
  • 📈 1% Sales Tax
  • 🔥 Reactive Burn
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The Legend

One machine. Infinite possibilities.

January 1975. Popular Electronics puts a blue metal box on its cover and calls it the world's first minicomputer kit. No screen. No keyboard. Just switches, lights, and 256 bytes of memory — and a generation of builders who saw the future in it.

Two kids wrote a BASIC interpreter for a machine they had never touched, and a software industry was born. The Altair didn't win because of specs. It won because of the community that gathered around it.

$ALTAIR is a memecoin tribute to that moment: the front panel, the blinking lights, the open-source spirit, and the belief that the next revolution always starts with a small group of people flipping switches together.

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Retro computer terminal displaying an ALTAIR BASIC program
ALTAIR BASIC

The Journey

It began in 1975

From a garage traffic counter to a machine that never stops booting.

  1. 1974

    Intel 8080

    The first microprocessor a person could actually buy. Everything after this is downstream of it.

  2. 1975

    Altair 8800

    The kit that put a computer on a desk. Switches in, lights out, imagination unlimited.

  3. 1975

    Altair BASIC

    Software written for hardware never touched — and it ran on the first try.

  4. 1977

    The Industry

    Within two years the desk computer is a category. The chip made the machine; the machine made everything else.

  5. 2026

    $ALTAIR

    The front panel comes back on — on Mendel.fun, paired with the software that shipped beside it.

  6. Beyond

    The Future

    Merch, tools, games, and whatever the community decides to build next.

The Launch

Mendel.fun. Paired with NVDA.

One venue, one pair, one burn wired to Big Tech — and a reason that runs from 1975 silicon to the silicon in every data centre today.

ALTAIR logo $ALTAIRThe machine
NVDATokenized stock

The Altair 8800 existed because of a chip. It was built around the Intel 8080 — the first microprocessor a person could actually buy — and that single part turned a computer from something institutions owned into something you could put on a desk. Every era of computing since has been decided by whoever makes the silicon. Pairing $ALTAIR against tokenized NVDA puts the first chip you could own against the chips the whole world now wants.

Mendel.fun Only

$ALTAIR launches exclusively on Mendel.fun. No presale, no second launchpad, no other contract. Anything calling itself $ALTAIR anywhere else is not us.

Paired With NVDA

The pool trades against tokenized NVIDIA stock rather than the chain's native asset — so that's what you'll need in your wallet to swap.

1% Sales Tax

A flat 1% tax on sales. Buying is untaxed. Fees charged by Mendel.fun and by the network are separate and set by them, not by the token.

Reactive Burn

$ALTAIR runs Mendel.fun's reactive burn, wired to the Magnificent Seven — AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, META, TSLA. On the volatile setting it fires on a 1.5% tick and burns 22% of reserve each time. Big Tech melts up, supply melts down.

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Boot Instructions

How to buy $ALTAIR

Four steps on Mendel.fun. No switches required.

  1. 01

    Get a Wallet

    Install a wallet that supports Robinhood Chain and set it up on your phone or browser.

  2. 02

    Get NVDA

    Hold tokenized NVIDIA stock — that's the pair $ALTAIR trades against — plus a little gas.

  3. 03

    Open Mendel.fun

    Connect your wallet on Mendel.fun and find $ALTAIR using the official contract address.

  4. 04

    Boot Up

    Confirm the swap. Welcome aboard — the front panel is lit.

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⚠ $ALTAIR launches on Mendel.fun and nowhere else. Always verify the contract address against our official channels before trading — scam tokens copy names, not addresses.

Boot Sequence

Roadmap

Loaded one sector at a time.

Phase 1Running

Power On

  • Launch on Mendel.fun, paired with NVDA
  • Contract address published everywhere
  • Website + socials live
  • First 1,000 holders
Phase 2Loading

Load Program

  • Community raids & meme contests
  • Listings on trackers and aggregators
  • Partnerships across Robinhood Chain
  • 10,000 holders
Phase 3Queued

Run

  • $ALTAIR merch drop
  • On-chain Altair 8800 simulator
  • Creator & builder grants
  • CEX conversations
Phase 4Queued

Beyond

  • Community treasury governance
  • Ecosystem tooling
  • Whatever the community boots next
Glowing ALTAIR microchip on a circuit board

From one machine

to infinite possibilities

Every revolution starts small — a kit in a magazine, a token in a wallet, a group of people who decide to build anyway. The Altair proved that the machine matters less than the people around it.

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Utility

Run the real thing

We rebuilt the Altair 8800 in your browser. 256 bytes of memory, an 8080 CPU, sixteen switches and a wall of lights — plus ALTAIR BASIC. Tap a program, press Run, and watch the two lines that started an industry execute in front of you. Nothing to install, no wallet, no signup.

10 PRINT "ALTAIR"
20 GOTO 10
RUN

Open the Front Panel
Retro terminal running an ALTAIR BASIC program

Diagnostics

FAQ

What is $ALTAIR?

$ALTAIR is a community memecoin on Robinhood Chain inspired by the Altair 8800, the 1975 machine that kicked off the personal computer era. It is a culture and community token — not an investment product.

Where can I buy it?

On Mendel.fun, and only there. $ALTAIR launches exclusively on Mendel.fun paired against tokenized NVIDIA stock. There is no presale and no other launch venue — treat any other listing at launch as a scam until we confirm it on our official channels.

Why is it paired with NVIDIA stock?

Because the Altair existed because of a chip. The 8800 was built around the Intel 8080, the first microprocessor an individual could buy, and it turned computers from institutional machines into personal ones. Every computing era since has been decided by whoever makes the silicon — which today means NVIDIA. Pairing against tokenized NVDA is a nod to that, and it means you'll need tokenized NVDA rather than the chain's native asset to trade.

Which chain is it on?

Robinhood Chain. Use a wallet that supports the network, and always swap using the official contract address published on this site and our verified social accounts.

What is the reactive burn?

It is a feature of Mendel.fun, not custom code we wrote. $ALTAIR's is wired to the Magnificent Seven — AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, AMZN, GOOGL, META and TSLA — on the volatile setting: it fires on a 1.5% tick and burns 22% of reserve each time those names run. Mendel.fun documents exactly how the mechanism works; check it there rather than taking our summary as the specification.

Are there taxes?

There is a 1% tax on sales. Buying is untaxed. Fees charged by Mendel.fun and by the network are separate from that and are set by them, not by the token.

Is $ALTAIR affiliated with MITS, NVIDIA, or Robinhood?

No. $ALTAIR is an independent, community-run project and a historical tribute. It has no affiliation with, endorsement by, or connection to MITS, Intel, NVIDIA, Robinhood Markets, Mendel.fun, or any related trademark holder. Trading against a tokenized NVIDIA stock product is a market pairing, not a partnership.

How do I avoid scams?

Only trust links from our official accounts, verify the contract address character by character, and never share your seed phrase. We will never DM you first asking for funds.

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