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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1975

amllycom — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:04:25 GMT

Thirty-four years ago, a nineteen year old kid and his twenty-two year old business partner sold their first program to a little computer company in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The program was called BASIC, and it was the start of this company

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Martha Jones — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:47:29 GMT

Thank you very much for the link. I always get new business insights by reading about the history of other big companies. Thanks again!

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Mitsha — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:30:27 GMT

A nice way to better understand Microsoft

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Mitsha — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:25:23 GMT

Thanks for sharing this wonderful session

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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1975

Jamal Finley — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:16:14 GMT

It is very interesting to see the beginning of this now Empire of a company. I remember when I was a kid about 10 years old or so and got my first PC for Christmas. That system is ancient now but I still have pictures of it. It is truly interesting how far technology has come since the mid/early 80's.

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aptsoft — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:51:15 GMT

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vijayshekar — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:23:11 GMT

Thats great. Microsoft is a great company and I admire Bill Gates

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Sud — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:09:00 GMT

Didn't Microsoft buy the DOS operating system from IBM?

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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1975

Rob Koelmans — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:56:41 GMT

I think I bought my 8K Microsoft Basic rom for th Rockwell Aim 65 in 1978. To me (in Europe) Microsoft already was an institute, an authority. But Basic was Texas Instruments calculators and school (arrays and mathematics), Forth was HP reversed polish notation, electronics and fun. I studied for weeks, but - just as with the 8K Monitor rom of the Aim 65 - I couldn't make the connection between the assembly opcode and what was going on functionally. It just went over my head. The 4 K Forth rom was easy: if you understood defining words (especially the Next-interpreter) you understood it all. Besides, most of Forth was written in Forth.

I think what killed Forth was that it was Open Source (the term then, slipped my mind). I wonder what would have happened if Bill had gone for Forth in those days. I think, we would have had totally different boundaries regarding opcode, operating systems, languages, applications etc, than we do today. A lot of what the CLR, managed code, .Net Framework and the like is meaning to us, would have been intrinsic in my view. Anyway, Microsoft today is an ashtonishing feat, with a lot more to come probably.

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reinpost — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:05:43 GMT

Sorry to be grumpy, but I'd much prefer a version targeted at programmers, without the instant-brainwipe background noise and with a presenter who looks and sounds like she'd code circles around me. Just a thought.

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Arkatta — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:52:10 GMT

Could the high quality WMV be reuploaded please? The current one is broken.

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Robert Hart — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:21:08 GMT

Haha.. love this.. watch out stevie J, Bill is on the coming your way! Don't stand in his way.

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Ben1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:37:18 GMT

I've read about life history of Bill Gates, the history of the Microsoft beginning is fascinating and philosophical. His friends thought that hes dream is unreal and that he was sick. This story is guide line to all of us, how to make our dreams come true.

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adam bock — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:12:14 GMT

I cant belive how long its been since bill gates started working on computers.

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Felixfree — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:05:48 GMT

It is interesting history about one of the greatest corporation, I wasn't into computers that time to but it seems to be very interesting!
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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1975

Audrina Lowe — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:43:22 GMT

Anyone who is interested a little more about how Bill Gates really made it should take a look at the new book by Malcolm Gladwell called "Outliers" the story of success. By far his best book yet

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Re: The History of Microsoft - 1975

nikrusty — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:16:17 GMT

I love this show, really nice to know the history of MS. But I want to download these vids, streaming is quite poor on my connection it takes ages, also anyone know what the title music is...quite nice!

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mobile094 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:14:52 GMT

I am coming from the ZX spectrum generation, so I started from 48K computers playing games; this was a wonderful blast from the past, and I have truly enjoyed it!
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Rich — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:52:10 GMT

I haven't seen programs on paper tape since my college years. Guess I just aged myself, didn't I?

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ali.a.o — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:44:13 GMT

yea i like such a man who build up his dream with great decreez, i love that man , microsoft isnt just a company its a whole world
i wish i can work there......

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Debesh Prasad Lohani — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:16:52 GMT

This footage is awesome, It's so cool seeing the first version of BASIC

It's really awesome! Rare Videos! I'm very excited for next espisodes.

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Firas Ammouri — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:40:54 GMT

Awesome, thank you Tina to share this. The most amazing thing I like that Bill & Paul invent Basic in one month or less! I liked that bill is still having that Altair 8800 also I like when Bill enhanced the loader and reduce the number of bytes for the loader lol.

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icelava — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:52:48 GMT

"My favorite part of the interview is when Bill's bragging about how he reduced the number of bytes for the loader that Paul had built"

Mine's smaller than yours.

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9swords — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 08:56:35 GMT

Wow it's really great to see that this all started the year i was born.
Going from holes punched into cardboard to enter instructions into the computer, all the way up to Microsoft Windows 7 technology.
Congrats Microsoft.

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Harlequin — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:13:20 GMT

Is there a download version? Stream is just bad for me...