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

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier ...

On Jan. 1, 1975, the Altair 8800 personal computer appeared on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine. This inspired Allen and Gates to develop a version of the BASIC programming language ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ...

The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics company called MITS, was a groundbreaking personal computer kit that promised to bring computing power to hobbyists. When Paul [Allen] and I saw that ...

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox ...

In the early 1970s, he and Allen reached out to the creators of the Altair 8800, claiming they had already developed a version of the BASIC programming language for the computer's processor.

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago ... 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a ...

Just five years later, in 1980, the company secured a deal with IBM to supply software for its first personal computer ... Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800. This minicomputer, powered ...

Although the company name was a portmanteau of Microprocessor and Software, the pair focused on software development for the Altair 8800 personal computer. They found immediate success and secured ...