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

Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office. While he went on ...

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox ...

“no computer experience.” BASIC on an Altair 8800 would widen the device’s market and bring personal computing one step closer to the masses. Gates details some of the things they had to do ...

Gates and Allen tackled the challenge by latching onto the BASIC computer language that had ... of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a minicomputer that would be powered by ...

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 ...

Another obstacle to developing a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 was that computer memory was very expensive at the time, and the Altair 8800 couldn't be equipped with additional memory.

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 ...