Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Microsoft by sharing the Altair Basic source code that created the very foundation of the company.

Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

This is probably the equivalent of the Altair microcomputer, the world’s first PC, launched in 1975. The only problem I see so far is in the descriptions.

At the end of his post, he included a PDF of the original source code for the Altair Basic — all 157 pages of it. You can check it out here.

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It can be supplied on cassette or floppy disks to users of your ALTAIR microcomputer. We are thinking of getting 50 dollars per copy from you, while you can sell the copy for 75 to 100 dollars." ...

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Allen contacted the Altair’s parent company, MITS of Albuquerque, and told them he had a working interpreter for the Altair. Naturally, MITS wanted a demonstration.

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The 157-page PDF available to download on Gates’ blog contains the origins of Altair Basic — a programming language interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800 microcomputer — and “remains the ...