As soon as Bill Gates saw that on the cover of Popular Electronics, he and his friend Paul Allen said, “We’re going to create software for this Altair.” In the meantime, at the Homebrew Computer Club up near Palo Alto, people like Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs were hanging out. They said, “We can use this tiny microprocessor from Intel and we’ll build our own computer.” And they built the Apple I and then the Apple II.
