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.
That's when it all began. Allen, employed by Honeywell, and his friend, Gates, a sophomore at Harvard, immediately set out to adapt the first personal computer language for the Altair, called BASIC. They worked in marathon 24-hour sessions to complete a working product, which was then licensed to MITS. Soon thereafter, Allen accepted a position with MITS as director of Software Development, and Gates followed him later that year to form an informal partnership called Micro-Soft, complete with hyphen.