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

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 ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now published its source code.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.

Ben Eater]’s breadboard 6502 computer is no stranger to these parts, so it was a bit of a surprise that when [Mark] wrote in ...

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 early days ...

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

Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...

Bill Gates unveils Microsoft's original source code celebrating its 50th anniversary, highlighting the BASIC code he and Paul Allen developed for the Altair 8800. This code, Gates considers the ...