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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 ...
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 creation.
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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.… The code was the foundation on which ...
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So BASIC: Bill Gates Releases Microsoft's Original Source Code
Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...
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Bill Gates just published the ‘coolest code’ he ever wrote for Microsoft
With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft ... As such, Gates and Allen decided to develop a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. The interpreter would convert ...
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.
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Bill v Melinda Gates: whose memoir should you read?
B ill and Melinda Gates divorced in 2021 after 27 years of marriage. But lately the tech billionaire-turned-philanthropist ...