Altair BASIC is a discontinued interpreter for the BASIC programming language that ran on the MITS Altair 8800 and subsequent S-100 bus computers. It...
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programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC. The Altair 8800 had no built-in screen or video output, so it would have to...
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different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first version of BASIC published by Microsoft as well as the first high-level...
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first product for sale was a BASIC interpreter (Altair BASIC), which paved the way for the company's success. Before Altair BASIC, microcomputers were sold...
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An Open Letter to Hobbyists (section Altair BASIC)
frustration with most computer hobbyists who were using his company's Altair BASIC software without having paid for it. He asserted that such widespread...
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Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (redirect from Altair 680)
Gates saw the magazine and began writing software for the Altair, later called Altair BASIC. They moved to Albuquerque to work for MITS and in July 1975...
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Ed Roberts (computer engineer) (section Altair BASIC)
computer kit. Bill Gates and Paul Allen joined MITS to develop software and Altair BASIC was Microsoft's first product. Roberts sold MITS in 1977 and retired...
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complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same...
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into a digit that could then be POKEd to the 7-segment display. Like Altair BASIC, Benton Harbor also included the OUT statement to write a value to a...
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Bill Gates (section BASIC)
that more than 90% of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the...
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Look up Altair in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation. Altair may also refer to: Altair Airlines, a regional...
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the language, "GW-BASIC is arguably the ne plus ultra of Microsoft's family of line-numbered BASICs stretching back to Altair BASIC — and perhaps even...
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Altair Disk Extended BASIC) (Altair 8800, S-100) – Microsoft's first product Altair Disk Extended BASIC See Altair BASIC Amiga BASIC (Amiga) Somewhat easier...
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significantly update BASIC. While the Minimal BASIC effort was taking place, the first widely available microcomputer was released, the Altair 8800. Shortly...
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writer of Altair BASIC's math package. Altair BASIC took off, and soon most early home computers ran some form of Microsoft BASIC. The BASIC port for the...
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the most important pieces of software for the Altair, and one of the most heavily pirated, was Altair BASIC from the recently formed Microsoft. Wozniak...
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PEEK and POKE (redirect from POKE (BASIC))
One of the earliest references to these commands in BASIC, if not the earliest, is in Altair BASIC. The PEEK and POKE commands were conceived in early...
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Tiny BASIC: Altair BASIC was an interpreter that translated instructions from the BASIC programming language into assembly instructions that the Altair 8800...
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floating-point arithmetic routines for Altair BASIC while he was at Harvard. The routines were subsequently reused in Microsoft BASIC products for other systems....
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UDP Ports Explained". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2022-09-25. "MITS ALTAIR BASIC REFERENCE MANUAL" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-10-09...
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programming language for the machine was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC. In 1976, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak sold the Apple I computer circuit...
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syntax. Altair BASIC, the original version of what became Microsoft BASIC, was patterned on DEC's BASIC-PLUS. Others, including Apple's Integer BASIC, Atari...
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Altair 8800. His coworkers included Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who created the first programming language for the Altair, Altair BASIC...
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GW-BASIC IronRuby IronPython JScript Microsoft Liquid Motion Microsoft BASIC, also licensed as: Altair BASIC AmigaBASIC Applesoft BASIC Commodore BASIC Color...
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experience that Gates and Allen gained, skills they used to write Altair BASIC for the MITS Altair 8800 computer: "Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success...
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Li-Chen Wang (section Palo Alto Tiny BASIC)
members excited by Altair BASIC. Fellow members Steve Wozniak and Tom Pittman would develop their own BASICs (Integer BASIC and 6800 Tiny BASIC respectively)...
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by MITS in punch tape format for the Altair 8800 shortly after the machine itself, immediately cementing BASIC as the primary language of early microcomputers...
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Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating...
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Gates. They saw potential to develop an implementation of BASIC for the system. Gates called Altair manufacturer Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems...
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