Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...

In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home computer by a small company named MITS. “When Paul and I ...

Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code that started it all.The Microsoft cofounder this week published the code that ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC ... interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the Altair 8800. Why an interpreter?

Gates said he and friends "coded day and night for two months to create the software we said already existed." Gates and ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer ... in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a minicomputer ...

Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...

It may be surprising to learn that someone as successful as Bill Gates regrets not finishing his degree at Harvard. In fact, ...

Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...