A company called MITS in Albuquerque, NM.
It was the first personal computer.
In fact, the invention of the telephone and lightbulb is very controversial. The Altair computer was originally developed by Ed Roberts.
Ed Roberts
the first personal computer c:
ALTAIR
MITS, an electronic hobbyist kit maker in Albuquerque, NM.
I think it is Ada Lovelace!
MITSBut actually there were others before it, one was the Radio & Electronics magazine Mark-8. Then before that was the Kenbak. etc.
BASIC for the Altair computer
Microsoft's first software was a a BASIC programming language interpreter that they created for the MITS Altair 8800 computer in 1975. Microsoft developed Applesoft BASIC for the early Apple computers (the name being a combination of Apple and Microsoft) before moving on to operating systems first with their UNIX clone called XENIX in 1980 and Windows in 1986.
The Altair 8800.
Burroughs