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Check out Microsoft's original source code from 50 years ago that Bill Gates calls 'the coolest code' he's ever written

Microsoft is turning 50 this year, and Bill Gates is looking back at how the company got its start. The Microsoft cofounder published a blog post on Wednesday about the code that would become the ...
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Bill Gates releases the source code for Microsoft's first product, Altair BASIC

In a nutshell: Microsoft, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in April 1975, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. To mark the occasion, Gates has released the source code he and Allen ...
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Bill Gates on Microsoft’s Original Source Code

At his Gates Notes blog, Bill Gates commemorates the 50th anniversary of Microsoft with a story about the company’s first code: The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft at 50: Bill Gates is Gifting Everyone With the Company’s Original Source Code

Microsoft at 50: Bill Gates is Gifting Everyone With the Company’s Original Source Code Your email has been sent Fifty years ago, Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded a company ...
Macworld

Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer

Maybe you didn’t realize this, but Microsoft is actually older than Apple. While Apple marked its 49th anniversary earlier this week on April 1, Microsoft will celebrate its 50th anniversary on April ...
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Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source

Microsoft’s Historic 6502 BASIC Code is Now Open Source Your email has been sent Microsoft has officially released the code for its 6502 BASIC version under an open ...
Observer

Bill Gates Celebrates Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary With Its Original Source Code

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pictured in 1984. Photo by © Doug Wilson/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images “At the time, personal computers were ...
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Check out Microsoft's original source code from 50 years ago that Bill Gates calls 'the coolest code' he's ever written

Bill Gates is taking a look back at the code that started it all. The Microsoft cofounder this week published the code that became the first product of the company. Take a look at Microsoft's origins ...
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Bill Gates Has Published the Original Microsoft Source Code

If you want to see the original source code that started Microsoft, Bill Gates is now sharing it. On Wednesday, the Microsoft co-founder posted it on his Gates Notes blog, reminiscing about the ...
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Bill Gates Has Published the Original Microsoft Source Code

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...