History of Microsoft -- 1975

In 1975, a nineteen year old kid and his twenty-two year old business partner sold their first program to a little computer company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was called BASIC, and it was the start of this company we call Microsoft.


1975 History of Microsoft Timeline:

January 1, 1975
The MITS Altair 8800 appears on the cover of Popular Electronics. The article inspires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to develop a BASIC language for the Altair.

February 1, 1975
Bill Gates and Paul Allen complete Altair BASIC and sell it to Microsoft's first customer, MITS of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the first computer language program for a personal computer.

March 1, 1975
Paul Allen joins MITS as director of software.

April 7, 1975
"Altair BASIC -- Up and Running," declares the headline of the first edition of MITS Computer Notes.

July 1, 1975
Bill Gates' and Paul Allen's BASIC officially ships as version 2.0 in both 4K and 8K editions.

July 22, 1975
Paul Allen and Bill Gates sign a licensing agreement with MITS regarding the Basic Interpreter. The name Microsoft has not yet been chosen, and Microsoft is not yet an official partnership.

July 29, 1975
In a letter to Paul Allen, Bill Gates uses the name "Micro-soft" to refer to their partnership. This is the earliest known written reference.

December 31, 1975
The 1975 year-end sales total equals 16,005 dollars, as detailed on Form 1065 U.S. Partnership Return of Income.

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[jrzy49]

And that ladies and gentleman, is how you become a filthy rich bastard.

[Tha1DJPLex]

@primecolorantsucks uuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh, you know microsoft writes 2/3rds of their code, even way back then they were always partners with micrsoft, mac osx today is based off an open source OS called Darwin. this was still a breakthrough bro cause this is where the basis of the apple 1 started

[1telikit]

sort that tuft of hair out boi.

[primecolorantsucks]

God......to think that in 1883 the automobile was invented, in 1945 the Manhattan Project came to fruition, in 1962 John Glen orbits the earth, and in 1969 man walks on the moon.

And then in 1975 this monkey prints 2+2 on on a paper tape and it is such a breakthrough!

Didn't we have computers that did much more than that in the 1950's? Thank God for Steve Jobs or we would all have to be stuck using Windows!

[MrIntosh]

Fuck that. You can hook that shit to a hard copy serial terminal and run altair basic.

[hentaiseeker]

She is "Tina Wood".

[bryonlape]

iMovie sound bits. Too funny.

[kurt05051987]

What's the name of this lady?

[ashia4life313]

Gates, your the man. :)

[futuremtt]

sounds kind of cocky