Gates and his co-founder, Paul Allen, reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800. The software would allow more users to easily create ...

Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Microsoft by sharing the Altair Basic source code that created the very foundation of the company. 159 pages of retro coding history. Skip to main ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard ...

50 years after the founding of Microsoft, Bill Gates has now published the entire source code of Altair Basic, the software that laid the foundations for the billion-dollar company.

The BASIC programming language turns 60 Easy-to-use language that drove Apple, TRS-80, IBM, and Commodore PCs debuted in 1964. Benj Edwards – May 1, 2024 12:17 pm | 253 ...

Writing in his bog Gates said: “Before there was Office, Windows 95, Xbox, or AI, there was Altair BASIC,” Gates reminded readers as he reminisced about those long-ago days of nerding out on a ...

In the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time.