File:MITS Calculator 1200 Series 1973 advertisement.jpg
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English: Micro Instrumentation & Telemetry Systems, Inc (MITS) advertisement for electronic calculators in March 1973. After a brutal calculator price war in 1973–1974, MITS was $300,000 dollars in debt. The company introduced the Altair 8800 in January 1975, the first successful personal computer. MITS was acquired by Pertec Computer Corporation in 1977 for $6 million. |
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| Source | Scanned from the March 1973 Radio-Electronics magazine by Michael Holley Swtpc6800 |
| Author | MITS staff |
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This advertisement did not have a copyright notice and is in the public domain. From the US Copyright Office Circular 3. Page 3, Contributions to Collective Works. (A magazine is a "collective work.") The trademark of a design plus words, MITS, was filed by Micro Instrumentation & Telemetry Systems, Inc of Albuquerque New Mexico on June 12, 1972 (serial number 72423353) and registered on July 16, 1974 (number 0988363). It ceased being used in commerce and was canceled June 7, 1985. (See registration number 1107110.) |
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This advertisement (or image from an advertisement) is in the public domain because it was published in a collective work (such as a periodical issue) in the United States between 1929 and 1977 and without a copyright notice specific to the advertisement. Unless its author has been dead for several years, it is copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties. See this page for further explanation. |
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