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@ -708,3 +708,10 @@ The broader context for this was the computer hobbyists in Silicon Valley/Menlo
Park (particularly the Homebrew Club of amateur computer engineers) along with
idealistic figures from the 60s counterculture (such as Stuart Brand) who began
associating computing technology as a tool of personal liberty and fulfillment.
## Microsoft and Apple
The PC "boom" began with the Altair 8800. This was a mail-order kit that
required manual assembly. It was released by Micro Instrumentation Telemetry
Systems (MITS) in 1975. It couldn't do much but had expansion capability
(memory, teletype interface, casette player for data storage).