“The coolest code I’ve ever written.” With these words, Bill Gates introduces a blog post that celebrates Microsoft’s 50th anniversary by looking back on how the company got started.

To commemorate the event, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has posted the source ... The Altair BASIC source code is available as a PDF download, covering 157 pages. Gates is “super proud of ...

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen pictured ... which offers an option to download a 157-page PDF of the code. “The code remains the coolest code I’ve ever written to this day ...