Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS sold the computer ... Microsoft's next big innovation because it came preinstalled on the first home computers IBM ...

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

“no computer experience.” BASIC on an Altair 8800 would widen the device’s market and bring personal computing one step closer to the masses. Gates details some of the things they had to do ...

The initial meeting was held just a few months after the announcement of the Altair 8800 computer kit, which came with Microsoft's BASIC interpreter. See Altair. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...

Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the Altair 8800. Why an interpreter ... could easily cost ...

for microprocessors and software – to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer, Microsoft wrote on its website. In 1980, the pair struck a deal to provide the operating ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University ... because it came preinstalled on the first home computers IBM rolled out in the early 80s.

By then, Gates and Allen had accomplished their goal of helping put a computer on every desk and in every home, laying the ... yourself computer called an Altair 8800. A company called MITS ...