Trace the evolution of PC graphics buses from IBM’s ISA to the current industry-standard PCIe and uncover how these ...

One of the most consequential developments in the history of computing happened 50 years ago. It set Apple on course to ...

The first ever personal computer, the Altair 8800, was a commercial hit when it released in 1975. The responsibility of launching the shocking innovation lay on the shoulders of Popular ...

The MITS Altair 8800, one of the first "microcomputers" ever made available to hobbyists in 1975, is shown in this undated handout photo released to the media on Wednesday, June 25, 2008.

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates ...

The story of how Microsoft came to be begins with, of all things, a magazine. The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured an Altair 8800 on the cover. The Altair 8800, created by a small ...

It started with the Altair 8800, a build-it-yourself computer that Allen saw in Popular Electronics in 1975. ED LAZOWSKA: Paul saw a magazine ad for this kit computer and went running to Bill and ...

Gates asked his classmate Monty Davidoff to write the floating-point arithmetic routines. by Victor R. Ruiz Another obstacle to developing a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 was that computer ...

Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It started with a version of the BASIC programming language for the Altair 8800 computer, and the rest is history.

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 ...

It was for a build-it-yourself computer called an Altair 8800. An Altair 8800 at the University of Washington's Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering.<br> Monica Nickelsburg ...