Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

It featured a cover photo of the Altair 8800 microcomputer designed by MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems), which inspired Gates to dabble in computer programming and software ...

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

an interpreter that translated code into instructions that the Altair 8800 microcomputer could read. "That code remains the coolest code I've ever written to this day," Gates wrote. "It's amazing ...

Altair BASIC was thus the first product of the newly founded company Micro-Soft. (The hyphen was only later removed from the company name.) “It’s amazing to think how this one piece of code ...

Eventually, they entered a licensing agreement with MITS, and Micro-Soft (the name originally had a hyphen) was born. But back to Microsoft. The Altair BASIC source code is available as a PDF ...

Allen contacted the Altair’s parent company ... 1975. They called it “Micro-Soft,” a mashup of the words microcomputer and software. Allen later said he had considered their collaborations ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that ...

The article inspired Gates, who was just a freshman at Harvard University, and Allen to call Altair’s maker, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, and promise the company’s CEO Ed ...

Microsoft Founder Bill Gates Reflects Upon a 50-Year-Old Computer Code That Reshaped Technology Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer ...

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