In March 1975, a few technology tinkerers meet in a garage in Silicon Valley and found a computer club. Apple would not have ...

However, I was most excited about the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer, arguably the first PC. I wasn't alone. At Gordon French's garage in Menlo Park, California on March 5, 1975, a small group of ...

Anderson Cooper interviews Bill Gates about the moments that shaped him, his career at Microsoft and the future of AI; Gates also discusses meeting with President Trump and Elon Musk's intervening ...

They started working with the Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) by developing a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800. Allen first coined the partnership “Micro-soft”, a combi ...

The urgency began in 1974 when Gates’ high school friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen showed him a Popular Electronics magazine featuring the Altair 8800, described as the “world’s ...

Bill Gates wasn’t as sure about Microsoft as the world might think. In its first year, he desperately tried to step away, hoping someone else would take over so he could return to Harvard. What made ...

Gates, passionate about programming, teamed up with his childhood friend Paul Allen after being inspired by the release of the MITS Altair 8800, one of the first personal computers. Recognizing ...

That changed in 1974 when Allen excitedly rushed into Gates's room with the latest issue of Popular Electronics, featuring the Altair 8800, the "world’s first minicomputer kit" built by Micro ...

We could sit and talk late into the night about very interesting things," he told CNBC Make It. The Turning Point: Altair 8800 However, circumstances forced Gates to make a pivotal decision. The ...

In 1974, the first personal computer kit (the Altair 8800) was launched by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gates and Allen contacted the president of ...