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

To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 – dubbed Altair BASIC – which became the company's first product. Reminiscing about Microsoft's ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold the ...

After hearing about the Altair 8800 in January 1975, he knew that the PC revolution was imminent and that he had to be part of it, Gates recalls. If they wrote the software for it, they could ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold ...

Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the Altair 8800. Why an interpreter? Compiling the code and ...

It was designed for the Altair 8800 microcomputer, a groundbreaking device that inspired Gates and Allen to create software to make computing accessible to more people. The source code, which you read ...

Gates recalls that upon learning about the Altair 8800 in January 1975, he recognized the impending PC revolution and felt compelled to contribute. He believed that creating software could transform ...

Would you forget the code you wrote years ago if it helped build the foundation for an operating system as massive as Windows ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured an Altair 8800 on the cover. The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics company called MITS, was a groundbreaking personal computer kit that ...