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.
As a result, the small, relatively inexpensive âmicrocomputerââsoon known as the âpersonal computerââwas born. In 1974, for instance, a company called Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) introduced a mail-order build-it-yourself computer kit called the Altair. Compared to earlier microcomputers, the Altair was a huge success: Thousands of people bought the $400 kit. However, it really did not do much.