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Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) - an American company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The Altair was created by Ed Roberts, owner of MITS, in Albequerque, New Mexico.

Roberts asked Forrest Mims to write the manual for the Altair, but this was after Mims had left MITS.

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It was created by Ed Roberts and Forrest M. Mims, both U.S.A.F., Weap. Lab,

1969, created Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS).

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Who developed the first altair personal computer?

MITS, an electronic hobbyist kit maker in Albuquerque, NM.


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Apple did not make the first personal computer. A company called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) produced a kit in 1975 that you could assemble into the Altair 8800 microcomputer which is considered to be the first personal computer. The sales of this computer were higher than expected which indicated that there was a demand for personal computers. This inspired Apple and many others to start developing and selling their own brand of personal computers.


What was the first computer to use Microsoft software?

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.


What is the original system produced by Microsoft?

The original system developed by the company that became known as Microsoft was a Basic Interpreter for the Altair microcomputer. This single language operating system was sold as Altair Basic. They next developed a version of unix licensed from AT&T called Xenix. Microsoft later purchased a dos like system, renamed it MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM for the IBM PC as PC-DOS. The name "DOS" was generic and existed on many computer systems at the time that had a Disk based Operating System.

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