Gates and his co-founder, Paul Allen, reached out to the company to pitch an interpreter of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800. The software would allow more users to easily create ...

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 ...

Well, Gates and Allen wrote the original BASIC on Harvard's PDP-10, before bringing it down to Albuquerque-based MITS to demonstrate. Building my own Altair 8800 .

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.