Computer Notes Nov/Dec 1975

I lost my bid at Ebay for the Popular Electronics so I got this instead!

Received it yesterday, via mail after so many days waiting . It is the original copy of Computer Notes tabloid of Nov/Dec 1975 issue which was published by MITS where Bill Gates was once an employee, he left to found Microsoft soon after that.

The following timeline might help you to get a picture of what is it all about .

January 1975 A mock-up of the Altair 8800 appears on the cover of Popular Electronics

February 1975 Paul Allen and Bill Gates demo and then license their BASIC implementation to MITS

March 1975 The MITS Altair newsletter, Computer Notes, declares, “Altair BASIC—Up and Running.”

October 1975 MITS introduces the Altair 680
BASIC 2.0 is released for the MITS Altair

November 1975 Altair 680 on cover of Popular Electronics
The name Micro-soft is used for the Gates/Allen software partnership

Source http://www.blinkenlights.com/altair.shtml

Or for more details you should read this
The Altair Story
From the last quarter of the article you will find this line..

“By June 1975, David Bunnell was editing a monthly tabloid called Computer Notes, a Publication of the Altair Users Group. In the November/December issue of Computer Notes, Bunnell announced in a banner headline ALTAIR CONVENTION.The meeting, which was Bunnell’s brainchild, was officially called the MITS 1st World Altair Computer Convention. It was scheduled for March 26-28, 1976 to coincide with the completion of the move to the new MITS headquarters in a brand new building adjacent to the Albuquerque Sunport.”

So this is the actual monthly tabloid -as mentioned in Ed Robert’s interview they never expect to attract people to convention but turned out to be a big hit among computer enthusiast.

Altair Convention!