Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates commemorates its 50th birthday by sharing the BASIC interpreter code that led to its creation.

Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Microsoft by sharing the Altair Basic source code that created the very foundation of the company.

In 1975, 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 the 1970s, Gates and his Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen, used a computer in Harvard's lab to compose what he calls the 'coolest code I've written.' It's now public for the first time.

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Ahead of Microsoft's 50th anniversary this week, co-founder Bill Gates has released the company's original source code. Gates and Paul Allen wrote it in BASIC using a PDP-10 mainframe at Harvard.