File:Altair Computer Ad May 1976.jpg

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English: The MITS Altair 8800 computer was the first commercially successful home computer. Paul Allen and Bill Gates wrote Altair BASIC and started Microsoft. This advertisement appeared in BYTE, Popular Electronics, Radio-Electronics and other magazines in May 1976.
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Source Scanned from page 27 of the May 1976 issue of BYTE magazine by Michael Holley Swtpc6800
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From the US Copyright Office Circular 3. Page 3, Contributions to Collective Works. (A magazine is a "collective work.")

A notice for the collective work will not serve as the notice for advertisements inserted on behalf of persons other than the copyright owner of the collective work. These advertisements should each bear a separate notice in the name of the copyright owner of the advertisement.

The trademark of a design plus words, MITS, was filed by Micro Instrumentation & Telemetry Systems, Inc of Albuquerque New Mexico on June 12, 1972 (serial number 72423353) and registered on July 16, 1974 (number 0988363). It ceased being used in commerce and was canceled June 7, 1985. (See registration number 1107110.)

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