. "Your mileage opinion may vary.In any case, the Altair's appearance was a full eight years before the personal computer moved from its hobbyist ham-radio-operator-turned-chiphead infancy into the budding society-changer that Time celebrated in its January 3, 1983, issue ??? although their editors didn't seem wholly convinced:Time; January 3, 1983 editorial by John Meyers: Says Senior Writer Frederi" . . . .