[Don Joe]

Mims is one of the fathers of personal computing.

He was co-founder of MITS, which produced the Altair 8800 -- the first personal computer on the market, back in 1975.

Interesting sidenote: Bill Gates got his start by writing his BASIC interpreter for the Altair. So, if not for Mims, there would quite likely not have been a Microsoft!

Forest Mims is a very well-known, very credible individual. (I remember reading his stuff Way Back When, in the '60s, when I was a budding young electronics hobbyist.)

[Tribune7]

Thanks. I like your tagline.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It would still be nice to have some other confirmation. Mims only gave his paraphrase of what this guy said. Single-source paraphrases are about as accurat as a single movie review.

Of course, Mims left MITS before the Altair was invented; Mims sold his interest for $100.00. Mims should get little credit for Gates use of Basic as Mims wasn't part of the company at that time. pdf link Mims left in 1971, the Altair was introduced in 1975.