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American electronics company (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) founded by Ed Roberts in 1969 — which created the Altair 8800 in 1975 — and which was the first company to sell a commercially viable personal computer kit.
American personal computer company that created QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) — which Microsoft purchased for $50,000, renamed MS-DOS, and licensed to IBM — making Seattle Computer Products the unknowing originator of the operating system that made Microsoft dominant.