• Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, Inc. (MITS), was an American electronics company founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico that began manufacturing...
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    Altair 8800 is a microcomputer introduced in 1974 by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) based on the Intel 8080 CPU. It was the first...
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  • like the tracking light. Mims, Roberts and two other coworkers formed Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in late 1969. The press release...
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    "the father of the personal computer". Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in 1970 to sell electronics kits to model rocketry...
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    tele, 'far off', and metron, 'measure'. Systems that need external instructions and data to operate require the counterpart of telemetry: telecommand. Although...
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    demonstrated the Altair 8800, and contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC...
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    January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, which inspired Allen...
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  • and the means to use peripheral equipment needed and used for full or mostly full operation. Such systems may constitute personal computers (including desktop...
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  • Institute of Technology and Science (MITS Gwalior), a college in Madhya Pradesh, India Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, an American electronics...
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    first true personal computer, the Altair 8800 created by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). Based on the 8-bit Intel 8080 Microprocessor...
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    food, film, and media, particularly in Albuquerque. The state was the founding location of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, which led to...
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  • the system. Gates called Altair manufacturer Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), offering to demonstrate the implementation. Allen and Gates...
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    Computer Corporation. Pertec themselves had acquired Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), designers of the famous Altair 8800 microcomputer...
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    entrepreneur and gambler Conrad Hilton (1887–1979) – founder of Hilton Worldwide Forrest Mims (born 1944) – founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems in...
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    micro-organisms since spacecraft can be sterilized. Humans can not be sterilized in the same way as a spaceship, as they coexist with numerous micro-organisms...
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    the occasion of the arrival in the area of the first Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, a unit sent for review...
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    computer time and classes. Every Man a God: In Albuquerque, New Mexico, Ed Roberts founded Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems created the Altair...
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    and celebration of vintage computers, has been held annually since 1997 and has expanded internationally. Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems...
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  • Byte Shop (category 1977 mergers and acquisitions)
    Byte Shop, Terrell and Boyd both previously worked at Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), makers of the popular and influential Altair...
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    manufacturers published their documentation. For example, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems marketed the Teletype Model 33 ASR as "Teletype ASR-33"...
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  • history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of this timeline...
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    subsidiary company, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems. They designed and built the telemetry modules in their homes and garages but they were...
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    It was created two years before the MITS Altair of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems arrived on the market. In 1981, R2E was absorbed by Groupe...
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    while Linux is closely related to Unix. In January 1975, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems began selling its Altair 8800 microcomputer kit by mail...
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    Machines, Inc. Marconi Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems produced the first widely sold microcomputer system (kit and assembled) Nixdorf Computer...
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  • spacecraft are embedded systems and include attitude determination and control, communications, command and telemetry, and computer systems. Sensors refers to...
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  • Biographical Data" (PDF). Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. May 1995. Retrieved May 19, 2023. Byyny, Richard L...
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    American TDRS and Europe's EDRS satellites. The EKTS integrates several previous systems, including the BRTS (radio), MBITS (telemetry), and Rassvet (radio...
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    narrowband radio links carried command and control (C&C) and telemetry data about the status of aircraft systems to the remote operator. In most modern...
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    amateur rocketry. In the late 1960s Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) was formed to sell instrumentation to rocket hobbyist. They were unsuccessful...
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