Microsoft Volume I

2498.82 - 2530.302 Ben Gilbert

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 ship for the 8080 Intel chip.