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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 ...
'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 …
April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates ...
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Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer
Macworld Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary ...
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Bill Gates unveils the Altair BASIC source code, 'the coolest' he's ever written
Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...
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50 years of Intel 8080: The foundation of modern computing
The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose ...
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Bill Gates drops OG Microsoft code to mark 50 years
The Software King of the World, Sir William Gates III, is marking Microsoft’s 50th birthday by releasing the digital ...
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The First Microcomputer: The Q1
The Altair 8800? Something obscure like the SCELBI ... and the development of the Q1 may have been a direct cause of Intel developing the more powerful 8080 microprocessor. It seems that Daniel ...
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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 ... designed around the Intel 8080 processor, it could ...