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 ...
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The First Microcomputer: The Q1
Quiz time, what was the first commercially available microcomputer? The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI? The Mark-8 kit? According to [The Byte Attic], it was actually the Q1 ...
Bill Gates reveals the coolest code of his life that started Microsoft's 50-year journey in computing—you can download it too
Bill Gates looks back on the code he wrote 50 years ago that led to the creation of Microsoft. This code was crucial in ...
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A HISTORY OF THE COMPUTER: MICRO
Popular Electronics features the MITS Altair 8800 on its cover, January 1975. It is hailed as the first "personal" computer. Thousands of orders for the 8800 rescue MITS from bankruptcy.
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What happened at the Homebrew Computer Club 50 years ago: Apple was born, and a revolution began
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 ...
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Microsoft turns 50
Early insiders reflect on the messy genius behind Vole The Software King of the World has officially hit the big five-oh, and ...
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Versatile DRAM Board Adds Memory To Any Heathkit H8 Variant
Ask anyone to name a first-generation home computer from the 1970s, and they’ll probably mention the likes of the Altair 8800 and IMSAI ... jumped on the microcomputer bandwagon with their ...