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 ...

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 ...

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(He has often spoken of the impetus for starting the company: Paul Allen picked up a copy of Ziff-Davis' Popular Electronics with an Altair 8800 on the cover and brought it to his dorm room.) ...

Key Takeaways Microsoft’s foundation was sparked by an article in Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800. Bill Gates and Paul Allen initially had no software but assured the Altair CEO they did.

The magazine had featured a cover photo of an Altair 8800, a groundbreaking personal computer created by a small company called MITS. The 19-year-old Gates and his Harvard pal Paul Allen reached ...

an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," Gates wrote. "It's amazing ...

Their initial focus on software for the Altair 8800 quickly evolved, leading to a partnership with IBM in 1980. This collaboration birthed MS-DOS, the operating system that would define the PC era ...

After two months of rigorous effort, Gates finished the code that laid the groundwork for Altair’s first operating system. This code later formed the basis for Microsoft’s suite of software ...

Vision on Mobile is available on iOS and Android starting today. Also: How Bill Gates, the Altair 8800 and BASIC propelled me into the PC revolution According to Microsoft, the Windows ...

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 ...

The cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Mechanics featured a photo of an Altair 8800, which Gates described as a "groundbreaking personal computer kit that promised to bring computer power ...