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Here’s the 50-year-old Microsoft source code that inspired the first Apple computer

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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has posted the source code for Microsoft ’s first -ever product, Altair BASIC.

The Altair 8800 computer was featured on the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics .

Gates and Paul Allen created a version of BASIC that can run on the AltairBASIC .

BASIC is a computer language designed for people with no computer experience.

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