Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

Macworld Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary ...

Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

The article inspired Gates, who was just a freshman at Harvard University, and Allen to call Altair's maker, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, and promise the company's CEO Ed Roberts they ...

Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of ...

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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 ...

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates this week published the code that became the first product of the tech company, which turns 50 ...

Microsoft, which turns 50 years old today (April 5), started off with a lie. In 1975, the 20-year-old Gates and 22-year-old ...

"Hard to believe that such a significant piece of my life has been around for a half-century,” the Microsoft co-founder wrote ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit. An Altair was about the size of an apple crate, with no screen, just lights and ...