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Roberts then developed the first commercially successful [[microcomputer]], the [[Altair 8800]], which was featured on the January 1975 cover of ''Popular Electronics''. Hobbyists flooded MITS with orders for the $397 computer kit. [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] saw the [[magazine]] and began writing [[software]] for the Altair, later called [[Altair BASIC]].<ref name="BBCTL">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5085630.stm|title=Bill Gates: A Timeline|work=BBC News|publisher=BBC|date=July 15, 2006|access-date=July 17, 2010}}</ref> They moved to Albuquerque to work for MITS and in July 1975 started [[Microsoft]].

MITS's annual sales had reached $6 million by 1977 when they were acquired by [[Pertec Computer]]. The operations were soon merged into the larger company and the MITS brand disappeared. Roberts retired to [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] where he studied medicine and became a small town medical doctor.<ref name = "AJC 1997">{{cite news | last = Emerson | first = Bo | title = Doctor of Invention: Computer pioneer keeping it personal as a small-town doc | work = The Atlanta Journal -Constitution | page = M.01 | date = April 27, 1997}}</ref>

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