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Here’s the original source code for Microsoft’s very first product
Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.
Bill Gates shares his original Altair BASIC source code for Microsoft's 50th anniversary — "The coolest code I've ever written"
Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its ...
Check out Microsoft's original source code from 50 years ago that Bill Gates calls 'the coolest code' he's ever written
Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code that started it all.The Microsoft cofounder this week published the code that ...
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Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer
Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier ...
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Bill Gates unveils the Altair BASIC source code, 'the coolest' he's ever written
Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...
Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of ...
Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC
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 ...
Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th by Releasing Altair BASIC Source Code
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.
"My coolest code": Bill Gates publishes source code from Altair Basic
Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now ...
How Bill Gates, the Altair 8800 and BASIC propelled me into the PC revolution
Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...
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Bill Gates just published the ‘coolest code’ he ever wrote for Microsoft
Altair BASIC was thus the first product of the newly ... Before there was Office or Windows 95 or Xbox or AI, there was this source code—and I still enjoy looking at it, even all these years ...
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50 years later, Bill Gates returns to the BASIC code that became Microsoft
Microsoft’s co-founder marks the company’s 50th anniversary by reflecting on Altair BASIC, the software that launched a tech ...