Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its ...

Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of ...

In the lead up to Microsoft's 50th anniversary, Bill Gates published the source code that ultimately led to the company's ...

Reminiscing about Microsoft's early days, Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office. While he went on ...

Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...

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

The Altair didn't actually do much as a computer ... The larger computer companies were busy developing mainframes and improving computer systems for industry, and couldn't really see why anyone ...

The computer came out scant months after the introduction of the famous Altair 8800 ... probably going to approach $1,000 to get a working system. Inside the box were some old-fashioned-looking ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.

A computer programmer developing a software application for high-performance computing. Altair Engineering Inc ... precise ...

Even when the Altair was new, the days of front panels were numbered. Cheap terminals were on their way and MITS soon released a “turnkey” system that ... bus in a real computer.