MITS

…On the cover of that magazine was the Altair, which was a personal computer made by this company out in Albuquerque, New Mexico, called MITS, MITS.…

…Yes. So now is the time to say a few words about Ed and Mitt. It's like, what is this company? Bill and Paul originally thought that it was going to be the IBMs, the DEX, the Japanese companies who are going to make the first microcomputers. MITS is about as far away from IBM as you can possibly imagine. MITS basically was a model rocket company.…

…Well, they do the natural thing that two super excited, ambitious, high-octane college kids would do. They call up the main phone number of Altair's manufacturer, a company called MITS, M-I-T-S, and ask for the president, a man named Ed Roberts. And Bill and Paul, they get him on the phone and they say, we have a basic interpreter ready to go, ready to shi…