Ep 21. Bill Gates: Co-Founder of Microsoft & Co-Developer of the Altair BASIC Language

from Notable People in History · host Lawrence Jean-Louis

In today’s episode, we’ll take a look at the life of Bill Gates who in 1975 founded the company then known as Microsoft with childhood friend, Paul Allen. The two would later write the Altair BASIC programming language and licensed its use to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry System (MITS), makers of the Altair 8800.

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