Instead of making chips for very specific purposes, it designed a processor that could be used in any scenario. Launched as the Intel 8080, it would go on to be recognised as the world's first ...

The Intel 8080A chip, introduced in 1974, is widely regarded by engineers as the first commercially viable general-purpose ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations ...

In the lead up to Microsoft's 50th anniversary, Bill Gates published the source code that ultimately led to the company's ...

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier ...

The Software King of the World, Sir William Gates III, is marking Microsoft’s 50th birthday by releasing the digital ...

Gates and fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen famously spotted the Altair on the cover of the January 1975 issue of ...

Gates and Allen thought that the Altair 8800 was a sign that the “PC revolution was imminent ... including not having actual access to the Intel 8080 chip that was in the Altair 8800 ...

Gates reflected on Microsoft’s early days, recalling the long hours spent coding on a PDP-10 computer at Harvard. He ...

«When Paul and I saw that cover, we knew two things: that the PC revolution was inevitable ... Since the enthusiasts did not have the Intel 8080 chip on which the Altair 8800 was based, Allen ...

In 1975, a few nerds formed a company to sell programming tools to other nerds. So how did Microsoft go on to become a ...