Micro-Soft and the World

In January 1975, Paul Allen was walking through Harvard Square when he spotted the cover of Popular Electronics magazine — a photograph of the MITS Altair 8800, billed as the "World's First Microcomputer Kit." He bought the magazine and ran to Currier House at Harvard, where he found his nineteen-year-old childhood friend Bill Gates. Both men understood immediately, with a clarity that almost no o...