For Microsoft's 50th Bill Gates wrote this (neatly animated) blog entry, and scanned the original Altair Basic source code print out.
via https://mastodon.social/@dosnostalgic/114314060158724539
Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code | Bill Gates
https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
5 Comments
arcosenautic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Fuck Microsoft.
GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y
As much as I'm a proud Linux user and Microsoft aren't at all in line with my values, I upvoted as this is massively relevant to the world of retro computing, and I found it interesting. :)
Guessing a lot of folks will have reflexively downvoted based on the red rag that is the word Microsoft, but nice to read historical stuff like this, thank you for sharing it! :)
i_am_somebody@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 1y
I hate Microsoft but that doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate their past contributions to the history of computing
Why even downvote a post by the great Anatoly Shashkyn? This is precisely the kind of content I want to see more of in this community!
eleitl@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
It's just the first page of the printout, and a 94 MB PDF.
Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 1y
Fraud Gates writing more fake history.
Praising Steve Ballmer is hillarious.