1 Key 1 to Key 2 is the first half step. 2  Key 2 to Key 3 is the second half step. 3  An accidental is a sign used to raise or lower the pitch of a note. 4  The first accidentals that we will discuss are the flat and the sharp. 5  The flat lowers a note by a half step while the sharp raises a note by a half step.
Ed Roberts, the president of MITS Incorporated, who designed and built the Altair. A supporting cast at Ziff Davis (publisher of Popular Electronics), and at MITS in Albuquerque, composed of Don Lancaster, Forrest Mims, and David Bunnell, who are well known in the personal computer industry, and a lot of people not so well known.
1975: Ed Roberts, the father of the microcomputer designed the first microcomputer, the Altair 8800, which was produced by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). The same year, two young hackers, William Gates and Paul Allen approached MITS and promised to deliver a BASIC compiler. So they did and from the sale, Microsoft was born.