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Intel introduces a 1K RAM chip and the 4004, a 4-bit microprocessor.
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Fairchild Semiconductor introduces a 256-bit RAM chip
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems.
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Intel introduces the 8008, the first 8-bit microprocessor
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Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel microprocessor
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Jonathan A. Titus designs the Mark-8, "Your Personal Minicomputer,"
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Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover, January 1975. It is hailed as the first "personal" computer. Thousands of orders for the 8800 rescue MITS from bankruptcy.
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates develop BASIC for the Altair 8800. Microsoft is born.
