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 Gates ...

Bill and I were using the same computing tech - the Altair 8800 and DEC's PDP-10 - as BASIC became a gateway for generations of developers. Where were you all those decades ago?

It's "the coolest code I've ever written," the Microsoft co-founder says.

In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home computer by a small company named MITS. “When Paul and I ...

During the 1970’s, cyber security and computer science emerged in the formative stages. Most people at this time were using IBM Main Computers and Bill Gates as a young high ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair ... "Extra memory for the Altair could easily cost more than the computer itself," recalled Gates. The pair also lacked the ...

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 ...

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 ...