CHM Revolution

Date

1978 ca.

Credit Line

Courtesy of the Microsoft Corporate Archive

Copyright Owner

© Microsoft Corporation

Location

United States

Keywords

Homebrew; BASIC (Computer program language); Allen, Paul; Gates, Bill

Object ID

500004390

Allen and Gates had no access to an Altair when they wrote their BASIC programming language interpreter for it. They debugged the program on a DEC PDP-10 timesharing computer using a simulator of the Intel 8008 microprocessor that Allen had written.