CNET: Bill Gates publishes original Microsoft source ... But BASIC, and particularly that BASIC for that Altair 8800 machine, still holds a special place in my heart. Also: The Mac turns 40 ...

founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen wrote for the Altair 8800 ...

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 is turning 50 this year, and Bill Gates is looking back at how the ... an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code ... to fit within the limited resources available on the Altair 8800. Why an interpreter? Compiling the code and running it all ...

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 ...

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.

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers ... issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a minicomputer that would be powered by a tiny chip ...

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 ...