Nearly four decades ago #BillG promised Andre Warufsel and me to send us the source code of his #Basic4K for the #MITS #Altair. He never did and @ModernDayNTK described one of my repeted reminders as 'winning last week's Stalking Bill Gates challenge'.
Three days ago he did eventually publish a scan of the source code on his blog.
I updated the story at https://gizmonaut.net/soapflakes/EXE-199711.html
BASIC INSTINCT – no, not the movie. 
#BillGates releases the original source code for #AltairBasic.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code
Bill Gates celebrated Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary by sharing the source code for Altair Basic, which created the company’s foundation. Read more at @theverge. #Microsoft #BillGates #Altair #Coding #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/5BzOuB
Bill #Gates veröffentlicht #Quellcode von #Altair #Basic
#Microsoft feiert in diesen Tagen seinen 50. Geburtstag, angefangen hat alles mit dem Programm Altair Basic. Dessen #Quellcode hat Bill #Gates nun veröffentlicht.
#BillGates unearths #Microsoft's ancient code like a proud nerd dad
Founder shares 4K #Altair #BASIC source ahead of 50th anniversary
The code was the foundation on which Microsoft was built. Before Windows and before Office, there was a carefully crafted BASIC interpreter designed to fit within the limited resources available on the #Altair8800.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/bill_gates_altair_basic/
The Code: https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
I still cannot understand why the #S100 bus based computers were not a great success in the early 1980s.
It was used for the first hobbyist #Altair computers as well as #Z80 CPU based systems.
The extensibility through standardized components was one of the key features. There were backplanes, cases and exchangeable 3rd party components available.
But people preferred proprietary stuff like #Apple II and #Commodore pet and later #VC20 and #C64.
Grievances Schmievances towards Gates, yeahyeahtoo
but seeing his implementation of #Basic load and run on an Altair 8800 and a teletype from punched tape is pretty cool
Compare the Best Data Visualisation Libraries for Python and Pandas
Starting a fresh new profile, let's introduce me.
I'm Nicolas from north of France, I like old computers, I have a collection of #amiga, #C64, #amstrad, #atari. I also like #computerhistory and started to code emulators, I made a #teletype, #altair and #Intel8080 emulator, and also a #Z80 then a #trs80 emulator coded in #rust. Currently experimenting with #Zig, and #riscv64 assembly.
The #ESA #Gaia spacecraft in Cancer timelapse video, captured by my husband Mark & me, with help from my friend Rachel. Oxfordshire, UK 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope + #Altair #Hypercam294C camera. 100 x 1min over a 2hr period on 25/01/25 with a short gap in capture.
The #ESA #Gaia spacecraft in Cancer, captured by my husband Mark & me, with help from my friend Rachel. Oxfordshire, UK 8" Ritchie-Chretien telescope + #Altair #Hypercam294C camera. 100 x 1min over a 2hr period on 25/01/25 with a short gap in capture. Gaia is the curved line near the top
@jzsimon @arclight @JosetAEtzel
Check this fresh updated article:
https://codingidol.com/how-to-plot-in-python-without-matplotlib/
A great read of an earlier time with a different ethos: the story of the creator of the first personal computer.
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-secret-father-of-modern-computing
Here’s a drawing using an Altair grid which I never got back to. Should finish, doing something productive instead of being bored…
#RogerBurrows #Altair #Grid #drawing #procreateart #owls #birbs
“Bring us the head of Chico Walker” 9or “Chico on our minds”) drawing using an Altair grid pattern by Roger Burrows.
My Airedale, Cairn terrier, & infamous demon cat nephew.
#drawing #illustration #terrier #dogsofmastodon #Altair #pattern #cat
the hands-on tutorials for data visualization are now also available in German – many thanks to Nadine Geffers!
