Ed Roberts, every mention

Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired Apr 22, 2024 · 18 mentions

• ▶ 41:47 David Rosenthal 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.
• ▶ 44:47 David Rosenthal And Ed's like, okay, come on out to Albuquerque.
• ▶ 46:34 David Rosenthal And both he and Ed, their jaws are on the floor.
• ▶ 46:41 David Rosenthal And Ed's like, oh my god, the Altair works.
• ▶ 46:45 Ben Gilbert And Ed actually has more eggs in this basket than he sort of led on, because when Bill and Paul call and say, hey, can you give us the teletype instructions, he reveals they're actually the only ones who called about that.
• ▶ 47:08 David Rosenthal So, now is the time to say a few words about Ed and Mitt.
• ▶ 47:37 David Rosenthal Ed, Roberts, the founder, he had been in the Air Force and stationed in Albuquerque,
• ▶ 48:09 David Rosenthal Ed, I think, probably personally made happen.
• ▶ 48:18 David Rosenthal That was through a relationship that Ed had.
• ▶ 48:55 David Rosenthal So this is all Ed's doing.
• ▶ 49:29 David Rosenthal I wasn't able to find how that negotiation went down, or why, like, Ed Roberts in Albuquerque, New Mexico got this sweetheart deal from Intel.
• ▶ 51:22 David Rosenthal So Paul and Ed, they kind of hit it off.
• ▶ 56:08 David Rosenthal So, Ed and MITS really have the upper hand in this deal.
• ▶ 1:06:04 David Rosenthal But Ed and MITS, they keep dragging their feet on negotiating these.
• ▶ 1:06:41 David Rosenthal So, Ed though, unbeknownst to Bill and Paul, he has another reason that he's dragging his feet on these deals, which is that he's about to sell the company.
• ▶ 1:06:48 David Rosenthal So in May of 1977, MITS gets acquired by the tape drive manufacturer Pertek for six and a half million dollars, and Ed kind of rides off into the sunset, and Pertek, they know about this dispute with Microsoft, and they sort of come in and…
• ▶ 1:07:13 David Rosenthal And Roberts has an amazing quote later.
• ▶ 1:33:48 David Rosenthal Hell, Ed Roberts could put together the hardware to sell a microcomputer and do this deal with Intel.