They wrote an interpreter for the Basic programming language that would run on the Altair and showed it to Ed Roberts, the president of MITS, which manufactured the Altair.

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Computer geek Leonardo Bonanni PhD, came upon this problem as a Visiting Scientist at MITs Media Lab, and decided the way best way foster true transparency was to map out product supply chains, one product and company at a time.

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