I was the youngest student in engineering school that first year -- the same year Bill and I were using the same computer technology: the Altair 8800 and the Digital Equipment PDP-10. My high ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

was inspired by an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 microprocessor powered by Intel’s 8080 chip. The article inspired Gates, who was a freshman at Harvard at the ...

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier this week on April 1, Microsoft will celebrate its 50th anniversary on ...

In January 1975 young Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 home computer from a small company called MITS. «When Paul ...

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Gates and Allen were pitching an interpreter that would run code written in BASIC on the Altair 8800. The problem was that when they made their pitch to MITS, they had not yet developed a BASIC ...