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The MITS 816 was featured on the November 1971 cover of Popular Electronics. [3] Thousands of calculator orders came in each month, in contrast to poor results for previous kits that MITS had offered. [24] The steady flow of calculator sales allowed MITS to run full page advertisements in Radio-Electronics, Popular Electronics and Scientific ...
T.C. Mits (acronym for "the celebrated man in the street"), [1] is a term coined by Lillian Rosanoff Lieber to refer to an everyman.In Lieber's works, T.C. Mits was a character who made scientific topics more approachable to the public audience.
This is a list of early microcomputers sold to hobbyists and developers. These microcomputers were often sold as "DIY" kits or pre-built machines in relatively small numbers in the mid-1970s.
MITS products typically had generic names such as the Model 1440 Calculator or the Model 1600 Digital Voltmeter. The editors of Popular Electronics wanted a more alluring name for the computer. MITS technical writer David Bunnell came up with three pages of possible names, but Roberts was too busy finishing the computer design to choose one ...
MITS claimed to have delivered 2,500 Altair 8800s by the end of May. [35] The number was over 5,000 by August 1975. [36] MITS had under 20 employees in January but had grown to 90 by October 1975. [37] The Altair 8800 computer was a break-even sale for MITS. They needed to sell additional memory boards, I/O boards and other options to make a ...
A specification often refers to a set of documented requirements to be satisfied by a material, design, product, or service. [1] A specification is often a type of technical standard. There are different types of technical or engineering specifications (specs), and the term is used differently in different technical contexts.
A functional specification (also, functional spec, specs, functional specifications document (FSD), functional requirements specification) in systems engineering and software development is a document that specifies the functions that a system or component must perform (often part of a requirements specification) (ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765-2010).
A Publicly Available Specification or PAS is a standardization document that closely resembles a formal standard in structure and format but which has a different development model. [1] The objective of a Publicly Available Specification is to speed up standardization.