... by MITS who designed it. Although it wasn't the first available microcomputer BUT saying that it was the start of the computer industry. The demand for the Altair was unexpected, and overwhelming. Hundreds of small entrepreneurial companies immediately responded to this demand by producing computers for the new market. The first major electronics firm to manufacture and sell personal computers was a Tandy Corporation. It introduced its computer model in 1977 and quickly took over the computer market being the dominate product, this was mainly because of the combination of two features: a keyboard and a cathode-ray display terminal (CRT) Soon after this new craze, two engineers/programmers called Stephen Wozniak and Steven Jobs started a new computer manufacturing company named Apple Computers. In 1976, Jobs and Wozniak created a homemade microprocessor computer board called Apple 1. These two men began to manufacture and sell there product to local electronics enthusiasts. In 1977, ...

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