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Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code | Bill Gates (www.gatesnotes.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/retrocomputing

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For Microsoft's 50th Bill Gates wrote this (neatly animated) blog entry, and scanned the original Altair Basic source code print out.

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[–] i_am_somebody 2 points 1 day ago

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!

[–] Turbonics 1 points 2 days ago

Fraud Gates writing more fake history.

Praising Steve Ballmer is hillarious.

[–] GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

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! :)

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

It's just the first page of the printout, and a 94 MB PDF.

[–] arcosenautic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Fuck Microsoft.