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

Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...