Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

Instead, a company called Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems, which rapidly became known as MITS, made the big American splash. This company, located in a tiny office in an Albuquerque, New Mexico, shopping center, had started out selling radio transmitters for model airplanes in 1968. It expanded into the kit…

…with the American electronics company Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) to adapt BASIC for use on the Altair computer. Allen thereafter moved to MITS’s headquarters in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he served as vice president and software director. With the success of this project, Gates left Harvard during his…