Object Details Description This is a homemade keyboard for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Not long after Intel introduced its 8080 microprocessor, a small firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico, named MITS ...

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 ...

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." ...

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.. In his blog post, Gates noted that late Microsoft ...

Micro-Soft was founded 50 years ago by Paul Allen and dropout Bill Gates, the duo looking to write software for their new computers. The company would go on to become a household name and one of ...

Altair Basic was developed by Gates, fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and programmer Monte Davidoff. The trio reportedly coded “day and night for two months” in 1975.