Programmeerimiskeel
The tradename "Microsoft" is registered.
ComputerLand opens a pilot store in Hayward, California, as a retail outlet and a training
facility for franchise owners.
Paul Allen resigns from MITS.
Paul Allen joins Microsoft full time
Bill Gates drops out of Harvard, to devote his full attention to Microsoft.
Don French and Steve Leininger are given official approval to develop and sell a
microcomputer for Radio Shack.
Steve Wozniak and Randy Wigginton demonstrate the first prototype Apple II at a Homebrew
Computer Club meeting.
To date, MITS has shipped over 10,000 Altair 8800 kits.
Hewlett-Packard begins Project Capricorn, to build a computerlike calculator.
At Xerox, the Display Word Processing Task Force recommends that Xerox produce an
office information system like the Alto. Code name for the project is Janus.
Advanced Micro Devices and Intel sign a patent cross-license agreement, giving