"the infamous Altair 8800" Seeing that this was the machine that fired up the "home computer" revolution and was a direct ancestor to the everyday PC, I can't

"the infamous Altair 8800" Seeing that this was the machine that fired up the "home computer" revolution and was a direct ancestor to the everyday PC, I can't understand the 'infamous' epithet. In my opinion, that line should read "the famous Altair 8800".