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Bill Gates shares his original Altair BASIC source code for Microsoft's 50th anniversary — "The coolest code I've ever written"
Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.
PCMag on MSN15d
So BASIC: Bill Gates Releases Microsoft's Original Source Code
Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...
The Associated Press on MSN8d
Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology
There was just one hitch: Gates and Allen hadn't yet come up with the code they promised Roberts. Gates and Allen tackled the ...
Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th by Releasing Altair BASIC Source Code
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.
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Smallest BASIC Computer?
This may be the most minimal computer that we’ve ever seen running BASIC. Hackaday.io user [Kodera2t] has been working through the history of computing, so after his 4-bit CPU, he stepped up his ...