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dot com forward slash bedtime history. Today we're continuing our journey into the past, where the world of computers was about to

undergo a revolution, all thanks to the remarkable tale of two young men.

College life at Harvard University was already keeping Bill Gates on his toes with classes

and campus adventures, but little did he know he was about to change the world forever.

Fast forward to the middle of his sophomore year,

a time when Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen

stumbled upon a magazine called Popular Electronics, with the headline,

World's First Mini Computer Kit.

This was the birth of the Altare 8800.

The Altare was unique because it was a small computer able to perform tasks that previously required large expensive mainframe computers.

Do you remember the huge computers we mentioned in the previous episode?

They required large rooms of equipment? With an Altair 8800 at an affordable price,

someone could own a computer small enough to have in their own home.

The Altar 8800 didn't look like today's sleek computers.

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