Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“no computer experience.” BASIC on an Altair 8800 would widen the device’s market and bring personal computing one step closer to the masses. Gates details some of the things they had to do ...

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.

April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates ...

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 ...