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Gates and Allen Bluff Their Way to Microsoft's First Product, Altair BASIC
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Microsoft's origin turned on a bold bluff. After seeing the Altair 8800 microcomputer on the January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics, Bill Gates and Paul Allen phoned its maker, MITS, claiming to have a BASIC programming language for it — though they had written no code and did not even own an Altair. When MITS expressed interest, Gates and Allen spent roughly eight frantic weeks writing the interpreter (Gates skipping Harvard classes), testing it on a simulated Altair. Allen flew to Albuquerque to demonstrate it; it worked on the first try. Altair BASIC became Microsoft's first product and the foundation of the company.
Source: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/dawn-of-a-revolution/
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