I was the youngest student in engineering school that first year -- the same year Bill and I were using the same computer technology: the Altair 8800 and the Digital Equipment PDP-10. My high ...

To mark the occasion, 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 ...

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured an Altair 8800 on the cover. The Altair 8800, created by a small electronics company called MITS, was a groundbreaking personal computer kit that ...

In January 1975 young Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 home computer from a small company called MITS. «When Paul ...

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier this week on April 1, Microsoft will celebrate its 50th anniversary on ...

was inspired by an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800 microprocessor powered by Intel’s 8080 chip. The article inspired Gates, who was a freshman at Harvard at the ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

Gates and Allen were pitching an interpreter that would run code written in BASIC on the Altair 8800. The problem was that when they made their pitch to MITS, they had not yet developed a BASIC ...

Tomorrow, April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates has created a blog post celebrating '50 years of Microsoft ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer as a kit. An Altair was about the size of an apple crate, with no screen, just lights and ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold the ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering. A company called MITS sold ...