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But their idea to sell software would change that. It started with the Altair 8800, a build-it-yourself computer that Allen saw in Popular Electronics in 1975.

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An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit.