Since computers were very expensive and large, they were cheap enough to be owned by individuals in the mid-1970's, which was only used in some limited places such as laboratories and companies,Altair ...

Computer enthusiasts, programmers and hobbyists may be interested to know that the discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language, Altair BASIC has been published to GitHub. The ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has shared the 1975 source code for Altair BASIC. The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Microsoft's founding on April 4, 2025, Microsoft founder Bill Gates reminisced in his blog about the creation of 'Microsoft's first product.' BASIC is a ...

I wrote this code to decode an original Altair 8K BASIC cassette tape I own to a .bin file. A note about versions of basic.. The 8k v3.2 version of basic tape starts with a leader byte of 0xae.. that ...

Exactly 50 years ago, on November 29, 1974, also a Friday, the January issue of the widely read US magazine "Popular Electronics" went to the printers. It was due to reach subscribers in mid-December ...