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Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code | Bill Gates (www.gatesnotes.com)
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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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[–] arcosenautic@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Fuck Microsoft.

[–] i_am_somebody@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months 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!

[–] eleitl@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Turbonics@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago

Fraud Gates writing more fake history.

Praising Steve Ballmer is hillarious.