CHM Revolution

Date

1986

Keywords

Microsoft Corporation; Roberts, Ed; MITS

Object ID

102685445

Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970, producing electronics kits for model rockets, and later calculators. When calculators became too cheap to be profitable, Roberts designed a $397 computer kit called the Altair 8800 and had it appear as the cover article of Popular Electronics magazine. Orders flooded in.