History of Microsoft -- 1977

For Microsoft, 1977 marks the beginning of an official partnership between Paul Allen and Bill Gates, we hire our first official employee and the FORTRAN-80, Microsoft's second language product finally becomes available.

February 3, 1977
An official partnership agreement between Paul Allen and Bill Gates is executed.

July 1, 1977
FORTRAN-80, Microsoft's second language product, is available at the prices of $500 for an individual license. OEM licenses are available.

September 13, 1977
Microsoft receives new computers from Commodore, Radio Shack and Texas Instruments.

September 26, 1977
The Albuquerque facilities are expanded by three new offices in the same building.

November 18, 1977
Microsoft terminates an exclusive license to MITS for Microsoft's BASIC product and announces availability of versions for the 8080 and Z-80 microprocessors.

1977 Revenue/Headcount:
The 1977 Calendar Year revenue totals $381,715, headcount is 9.

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[philhalo66]

@TheGhostOfPainsey back in 77 that was an unheard of amount of storage space.

[MrRakoXXx]

Pau no ku desse ladrão que so roubo as ideias de todo mundo!

[BenTennison16]

world trade centre huh#?

[rockapartie]

@TheGhostOfPainsey the whole system retailed at $600

[TheGhostOfPainsey]

4k memory for $600 ? what the fucking FUCK???????

[superdave31]

no wonder microsoft succeeded where apple didnt. its obvious watching this the money isnt going to be in the hardware, its just about supplying the software. If apple realised this earlier they could have become the domiannt company because they had better software years before microsoft

[tehcomputermahn]

@tehcomputermahn i mean dad

[tehcomputermahn]

my dd had the apple IIe