:29:03
So...
:29:05
...are you...? Are you Bill?
:29:08
Are you Ed?
:29:11
Well, I'll be damned.
:29:21
Signing bonus?
:29:25
I've never given a signing bonus
in all my life.
:29:28
You know, Ed, in our other contracts,
we always get a signing bonus.
:29:31
- Other contracts?
- Yeah, our other contracts.
:29:35
Well, I don't know.
:29:37
I don't know.
:29:49
Okay.
:29:51
- Two thousand.
- Four thousand.
:29:53
- What?
- Of course.
:29:55
Next, Ed, this business
of a $ 15 royalty...
:29:58
...for BASIC sold in every 4K Altair,
it's just not acceptable.
:30:01
Let me tell you something, boy.
This ain't the way I do business.
:30:05
And I especially don't like
being dictated to by some little...
:30:08
Ed, Ed, this is not about dictating.
:30:11
You see, this is about reality.
:30:13
The reality is that your machine is
brilliant, but it needs our language.
:30:19
And without it, you know,
it's just a tin box that lights up.
:30:25
So let's double our royalty
from $ 15 to $30 a copy.
:30:36
So back then I get postcards
from these guys.
:30:38
"Wish you were here," and all that.
Yeah, right, Albuquerque.
:30:41
Bill and Paul were living
in this crummy motel...
:30:44
... acting like they had a clue about
being in the computer business.
:30:47
- Eureka.
- What?
:30:49
I created a program
that can play blackjack.
:30:53
Chris, you've been here two days,
and you're into blackjack?
:30:56
Yeah, so?
:30:58
So you got work to do.