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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
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
Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, Inc., was an American electronics company founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico that began manufacturing electronic calculators in 1971 and personal computers
Transistorized tracking light for model rockets. The product that launched MITS
Sales had reached $100,000 per month when this advertisement ran in March 1973.
Many companies made boards that could plug into the Altair / S-100 bus.