In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a modified version of BASIC to run on the MITS Altair 8080. Altair BASIC, as it came to be called, was Microsoft’s first product. A year later ...

Originally Altair BASIC in 1975, Microsoft BASIC was the first product from Microsoft and the first high-level programming language for the Altair. Microsoft BASIC evolved into various versions of ...

Bill Gates with a printout of the Altair BASIC source code from 1975, one of Microsoft’s earliest software artifacts. Click to enlarge. (Gates Notes / Ian Allen) [Editor’s Note: Microsoft ...

They contacted Roberts and offered to write software for the PC, a program known as Altair-Basic that marked the launch of Microsoft. Microsoft was originally based in Albuquerque, N.M ...

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A particularly strong endorsement, considering at this point Gates would have been pushing Microsoft’s BASIC language for the Altair, which this technique didn’t use. At the recent Vintage ...

‘The addition of Altair’s capabilities in simulation, high-performance computing, data science and artificial intelligence together with Siemens Xcelerator will create the world’s most ...