Programmeerimiskeel
of over $50 million.
IBM's John Cocke begins work on project "801", to develop a scaleable chip design that
could be used in small computers as well as large.
Zilog is founded.
MITS begins work on a Motorola 6800-based Altair.
MITS sales of Altair computers hits US$1 million.
Sphere Corporation introduces its Sphere I computer kit, featuring a Motorola 6800 CPU,
4KB RAM, ROM monitor, keyboard, and video interface, for US$650.
Cromemco is founded, by Harry Garland and Roger Melen. The company is named after the
Crowthers Memorial dorm at Stanford.
1976
David Bunnell publishes in his Altair newsletter an open letter from Bill Gates to the
microcomputer hobbyists, complaining of software piracy.
Bill Gates writes software routines for BASIC on the Altair to use diskettes for storage.
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs finish work on a computer circuit board, that they call the
Apple I computer.
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