Aparentemente, não.
Embora a origem por trás disso possa ter sido semelhante
In Forbidden Planet a jornada da tripulação para o décimo sexto planeta de ....
"the planetary system of the great main sequence star, Altair."
Portanto, Altair 4!
Quanto ao computador, Wikipedia tem algumas opções para nós quanto à nomeação ...
One explanation of the Altair name, which editor Les Solomon later told the audience at the first Altair Computer Convention (March 1976), is that the name was inspired by Les's 12-year-old daughter, Lauren. "She said why don't you call it Altair – that's where the Enterprise is going tonight."[17] The Star Trek episode is probably "Amok Time", as this is the only one from The Original Series which takes the Enterprise crew to Altair (Six).
Another explanation is that the Altair was originally going to be named the PE-8 (Popular Electronics 8-bit), but Les Solomon thought this name to be rather dull, so Les, Alexander Burawa (associate editor), and John McVeigh (technical editor) decided that: "It's a stellar event, so let's name it after a star." McVeigh suggested "Altair", the twelfth brightest star in the sky