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

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

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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Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

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Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...