Its external design has been reported to be the direct inspiration for the front panel of the MITS Altair ( 1975 ) microcomputer.

In 1975, early personal computers based on inexpensive microprocessors, such as the MITS Altair and later TRS-80, Apple II and others began to dominate the market for small general purpose computers.

Of the early " box of switches "- type microcomputers, the MITS Altair 8800 ( 1975 ) was arguably the most famous.

He had seen BASIC on minicomputers and felt it would be the perfect match for new machines like the MITS Altair 8800, which had been released in January 1975.

The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975 based on the Intel 8080 CPU.

Allen and Gates had been in contact with Ed Roberts of MITS and in March, 1975 Allen went to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to test the software on an actual machine.

On July 22, 1975 MITS signed the contract with Allen and Gates.

At the first meeting in March, 1975 Steve Dompier gave an account of his visit to the MITS factory in Albuquerque where he attempted to pick up his order for one of everything.

At the end of 1975, MITS was shipping a thousand computers a month but BASIC was selling in the low hundreds.

He wrote in the September 1975 issue that " customers have been ripping off MITS software ".

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems ( MITS ) produced the Altair 8800 in 1975, which is widely regarded as starting the microcomputer revolution.

MITS logo used from 1972 to 1975.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems ( MITS ) was an American electronics company founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico that began manufacturing electronic calculators in 1971 and personal computers in 1975.

This was featured on the cover of the January 1975 Popular Electronics and hobbyists flooded MITS with orders for this $ 397 computer kit.

They moved to Albuquerque to work for MITS and in July 1975 started Microsoft-originally named " Micro-Soft " by Paul Allen as recounted in this 1995 Fortune magazine article.

MITS had announced a new computer based on the Motorola 6800 microprocessor in November 1975, the Altair 680.

In 1975, it released the first Betamax home video recorder, a year before VHS format came out.

In 1975 until when he continued to release singles, he released his first non-compilation LP 2023, a concept album that includes many instrumental songs.

As early as the Church Committee Report ( 1975 ), publicly available documents have indicated that the CIA attempted to prevent Allende from taking office after he was elected in 1970 ; the CIA itself released documents in 2000 acknowledging this and that Pinochet was one of their favored alternatives to take power.

Three albums released in years 1975 and 1976 ( Caught in the Act, Movin ' On, Hot On The Tracks ) are considered the peak of their harder funk period.

The resulting film was the two and a half hour documentary La Spirale, released in 1975.

From 1975 to 1979, a Canadian progressive power trio, Rush, released three albums containing sidelong epics, regarded by some as concept albums ( though not actually concept albums by strict definition of the term ; that is, none of the other songs on the album have anything to do with each other or the 20-minute sidelong epic, so there is no pervasive concept or story ).

The first of these was released in 1975, titled Caress of Steel.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

In 1975, Day released her autobiography, Doris Day: Her Own Story, an " as-told-to " work with A. E. Hotchner.

Face the Music was released in 1975, producing the hit singles " Evil Woman " and " Strange Magic ".

It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.

* In addition, in 1974, Greg Lake ( of Emerson, Lake & Palmer ) wrote and recorded the song, " I Believe In Father Christmas ", which was released as a single in 1975.

Terror of Mechagodzilla, ( released in Japan as ) is a 1975 Japanese science fiction kaiju film produced by Toho.

The 1975 movie Inserts directed by John Byrum about a pornographic film production, which starred Richard Dreyfuss and was originally released with an X rating, took its name from the double meaning that " insert " both refers to this film technique ( often used in pornographic filmmaking ) and to sexual intercourse.

Michigan ( 1975 ) was the first state to create a GBMI verdict, after two prisoners released after being found NGRI committed violent crimes within a year of release, one raping two women and the other killing his wife.

Taito released a four-way joystick as part of their arcade racing video game Astro Race in 1973, while their 1975 run and gun multi-directional shooter game Western Gun introduced dual-stick controls with one eight-way joystick for movement and the other for changing the shooting direction.

His piece " American Standard " was recorded and released on Obscure Records in 1975.

In 1975, Moon released his only solo album, pop covers entitled Two Sides of the Moon.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show was originally released in 1975 and was a critical failure until it started midnight screenings in the 1980s where it achieved cult status.

Earlier, the two of them had also been caught in an attempt to assassinate Nasir when he was president and had been tried and imprisoned before being released in 1975.

The 2nd Airborne Infantry Regiment was also released from garrison duties in the city of Córdoba after the ERP armed uprising that killed 5 policemen there in August 1975 and would achieve similar success against the ERP's Decididos de Córdoba company sent to rekindle the insurgency in Tucumán province.

The five were convicted of the killing and imprisoned, but were released and returned to Israel in 1975.

* In 2004, Paramount bought all worldwide distribution rights to the original 1975 version of The Stepford Wives ( also released by Columbia ), in connection with the release of the remake.

The first album to come out of this downtown scene was released in November 1975: Smith's debut, Horses, produced by John Cale for the major Arista label.

The first meeting was held in March 1975 in French's garage in Menlo Park, San Mateo County, California, on the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems Altair microcomputer, a unit sent for review by People's Computer Company.

January 1975 Popular Electronics with the Altair 8800 computer

It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC and the first high level programming language available for the Altair 8800 microcomputer.

During the design of the Altair, the hardware required to make a usable machine was not available in time for the January 1975 launch date.

A burgeoning industry of " clone " machines followed the introduction of the Altair in 1975.

In December 1974 Bill Gates was a student at Harvard University and Paul Allen worked for Honeywell in Boston when they saw the Altair 8800 computer in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics.

The April 1975 issue of MITS's Computer Notes had the banner headline " Altair Basic-Up and Running.

In the July 1975 Computer Notes, Bill Gates described this as " the best demo program I've seen for the Altair …" Gates could not figure out how the computer could broadcast to the radio.

Although not very commercially successful, the Mark-8 prompted the editors of Popular Electronics magazine to consider publishing a similar but more easily accessible microcomputer project, and just six months later, in January 1975, they went through with their plans announcing the Altair 8800.

Full scale development of the IMSAI 8080 was put into action ( using the existing Altair 8800's S-100 bus ), and by October 1975 an ad was placed in Popular Electronics, receiving positive reactions.

The Altair 8800 computer kit ( January 1975 )

The most famous issue, January 1975, had the Altair 8800 computer on the cover and ignited the home computer revolution.

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics had the Altair computer on the cover and this launched the home computer revolution.

There is debate about what machine was the first personal computer, the Altair 8800 ( 1975 ), the Mark-8 ( 1974 ), or even back to Kenbak-1 ( 1971 ).

Many early microcomputers ( with a CPU generally on a single integrated circuit ) were built with a single system bus, starting with the S-100 bus in the Altair 8800 computer system in about 1975.

Because it was the first mass marketed and the first widely copied calculator, its design marks the starting point of the mechanical calculator industry, which eventually morphed into the electronic calculator industry and which, through the accidental design of the first microprocessor to be commercialized, the Intel 4004, for one of Busicom's calculator in 1971, led to the first commercially available personal computer, the Altair in 1975.