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50 years ago, Gates and Allen made the deal that launched Microsoft

How the MITS Altair 8800, a $264 RAM board, and some BASIC changed the world This week marked the 50th anniversary of the birth of several empires. On July 22, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen signed a deal with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.…
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