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?

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in ... Gates said Altair BASIC was the company's "original source code," predating iconic products like Windows and Office.

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

Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday these days, and it all started with the Altair Basic program. Bill Gates has now published its source code. 50 years after the founding of Microsoft ...

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. This code, Gates considers the ...

“The coolest code ... source code here (PDF). In January 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen read an article in the magazine Popular Electronics about the Altair 8800 home ...

Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released ... Gates charts the origins of Altair BASIC in more detail in his new book, Source Code, which he discussed ...

Before Microsoft (or even Micro-soft), there was an interpreter called Altair Basic.

Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code ... 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.