The birth of Microsoft was marked on April 4, 1975, when Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Micro-Soft. The business signed an agreement with IBM to provide software for its first personal computer in 1980, just five years later.
Bill Gates posted on Instagram on Saturday, “Happy 50th birthday, @microsoft. ” I appreciate the memories and the uncomfortable photo sessions. “Unfortunately, I’ll never feel cool again because this was me in the early Microsoft days,” he said in the reel.
The code that Gates entered on a teletype machine earlier Friday may appear archaic in comparison to today’s sophisticated artificial intelligence systems, but it was essential to the establishment of Microsoft in April 1975, a milestone that the Redmond, Washington-based corporation will celebrate this Friday.
According to AP, Gates, 69, wrote a blog entry in which he reflected on how, after finding an article on the Altair 8800 in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, he and his late high school classmate, Paul Allen, rushed to create the first “software factory” in history. Their innovative endeavour began with this minicomputer, which was powered by a tiny chip from the then-unknown tech company, Intel.
Gates, who was a freshman at Harvard at the time, and Allen got the idea from the article to contact Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, the company that made Altair. Ed Roberts, the company’s CEO, was reassured that they had created software to assist customers in using the hardware. The issue was that they still hadn’t written the code.
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