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Altair BASIC

Updated: 10/02/2017 by Computer Hope
Altair BASIC tape

Altair BASIC is a BASIC language developed by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and Monte Davidoff that was introduced and announced as completed on January 2, 1975. Altair BASIC allowed people to create programs for the Altair computers.

The picture shows an 8 K tape Microsoft used to deliver Altair BASIC.

Related information

  • Programming language history.
  • How to create a computer program.

BASIC, Microsoft BASIC, Programming language, Programming terms
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