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.
Launched the personal computing industry with the Altair 8800 — demonstrating that there was mass consumer demand for personal computers years before Apple, Commodore, or Tandy proved it — and inadvertently created the opportunity that launched Microsoft.
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