Last week, Microsoft announced that it would be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company . Company co founder Bill Gates celebrated it in a memorable way by releasing the original source code for Altair BASIC, the software that laid the foundation for Microsofts formation. Gates shared the original source code, a 157 page document written in Intel 8080 assembly language. The story of Altair BASIC began in 1975 when Gates, then a Harvard freshman, and his friend Paul Allen were inspired...
