Baptist Village is proud to celebrate an incredible milestone: 50 years of exceptional service from our dedicated Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA), Fannie Sullivan (hired July 28, 1975. Fannie’s ...

Trace the evolution of PC graphics buses from IBM’s ISA to the current industry-standard PCIe and uncover how these ...

One of the most consequential developments in the history of computing happened 50 years ago. It set Apple on course to ...

It was halfway through Gates’ sophomore year when Allen first spotted the Altair 8800 — the first commercially available personal computer — on the cover of Popular Electronics, purchased at ...

Altair 8800 The first ever personal computer, the Altair 8800, was a commercial hit when it released in 1975.

The MITS Altair 8800, one of the first "microcomputers" ever made available to hobbyists in 1975, is shown in this undated handout photo released to the media on Wednesday, June 25, 2008.

Gates, 69, set the stage for that jubilee with a blog post reminiscing on how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to create the world’s first “software factory” after ...

At his Gates Notes blog, Bill Gates commemorates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with a story about the company’s first code: The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a ...

The very first Microsoft product was the BASIC interpreter for the Altair, giving people the power to create software, jumpstarting the PC revolution, and creating an entirely new sector for our ...

Bill Gates unveils Microsoft's original source code celebrating its 50th anniversary, highlighting the BASIC code he and Paul Allen developed for the Altair 8800.

The PC boom Most people learned of Microsoft’s next big innovation because it came preinstalled on the first home computers IBM rolled out in the early 80s.

As the name implies, Microsoft was originally focused on microprocessors and software, and Gates and Allen created the company to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.