An Open Letter to Hobbyists
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"An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the widespread duplicat
Altair 8K BASIC on paper tape. This was a popular storage medium before the invention of the low-cost floppy disk.
Ad for the Apple I computer, noting Apple's policy of providing free or inexpensive software for its computers
Bill Gates at the European Commission 2025 P067383 605791
Bill Gates June 2015
Bill Gates
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William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his c
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
…An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the widespread duplication of software taking…
Gates in 2025
Gates (right) with Paul Allen seated at Teletype Model 33 ASR terminals in Lakeside School, 1970
A MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system, whose first programming language was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC
Bill Gates next to a Tandy 2000 running a development version of Windows 1.0, 1984