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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 ...
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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Bill Gates just published the ‘coolest code’ he ever wrote for Microsoft
In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home computer by a small company named MITS. “When Paul and I ...
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Bill Gates unearths Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC ... interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the Altair 8800. Why an interpreter?
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Bill Gates on Microsoft’s Original Source Code
Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...
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Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology
Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic ... in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair 8800, a minicomputer that would ...
‘It’s happening without us’: Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but Bill Gates still wouldn’t advise dropping out of college — here’s why
It may be surprising to learn that someone as successful as Bill Gates regrets not finishing his degree at Harvard. In fact, ...