The company name Mirco-soft is first mentioned in a letter to MITS. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a letter
On This day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen write to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the manufacturer of the Altair computer, saying they have a BASIC language for the Intel 8080 processor. Gates and Allen propose licensing the language for use on the Altair in exchange for royalty payments. This letter and the contract which results from it, are the first time Gates and Allen refer to themselves by the company name Microsoft, spelled “Micro-Soft.” The letter was written the day after Popular Electronics magazine publishes an issue featuring the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover.
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