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MITS designed the Altair 8800 computer kit using the Intel 8080 microprocessor. Bill Gates was at Harvard at the time and recognized an opportunity to sell software for the new machine, so he wrote a BASIC interpreter for the machine, dropped out of college, and started his business!

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