Bill Gates arrived at Harvard College in September 1973 as a quiet freshman from Seattle in Wigglesworth Hall. He left campus two years later not with a degree, but with a piece of software that would ...

The innovations of 1975 may seem rudimentary compared to a brand new iPhone, but when these devices first debuted, they shook ...

Tech people had always lusted over the idea of owning a computer; the break-through that finally made personal ownership ...

Born in 1955, Bill Gates began programming at age 13 and co-founded Microsoft before leaving Harvard. Alongside Paul Allen, he developed BASIC for the Altair 8800 and built MS-DOS, licensing it to ...

Bill Gates commemorates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with a story about the company’s first code: The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a magazine. The January 1975 ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Microsoft's founding on April 4, 2025, Microsoft founder Bill Gates reminisced in ... code written in BASIC on the Altair 8800. The problem was that when ...

The magazine had featured a cover photo of an Altair 8800, a groundbreaking personal ... She acknowledged what Bill Gates has publicly stated -- that he wasn't always faithful in the marriage ...

Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It started with a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 computer, and the rest is history. Bill and ...

Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code that ... an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code ...

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 ...