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| | Altair BASIC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Altair BASIC, in its first incarnation, MITS 4K BASIC, was a true milestone in software history — the first programming language for the world's first truly personal computer, the MITS Altair 8800. | | | The historic interpreter was later expanded to MITS 8K BASIC, and eventually, Altair Disk Extended BASIC (for use with MITS' floppy disk drive). | | | As the home computer revolution took hold in the early 1980s, Microsoft BASIC became the most prolific programming language in the world, counting installations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_BASIC_programming_language
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| | BASIC programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | BASIC was intended to address the complexity issues of older languages with a new language designed specifically for the new class of users the time-sharing systems allowed — that is, a "simpler" user who was not as interested in speed as in simply being able to use the machine. | | | BASIC was designed to allow students to write programs using time-sharing computer terminals. | | | BASIC is a family of high-level programming languages. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC_programming_language
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| | Online Ethics Center for Engineering & Science: Altair History |
| | It turned the Altair into a real computer, capable of solving real-world problems, and exciting computer hobbyists where ever it was demonstrated. | | | Featured on the cover was the computer that jump-started the computer hobbyist movement and set the course for the personal computer revolution. | | | But a copy of Altair BASIC that was stolen at a hobbyist club meeting sparked the first major software piracy controversy, causing Bill Gates to write an open letter to computer hobbyists, which really stirred up the animals, and began an ethics debate on software copying that still continues on today. |
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http://onlineethics.org/contest/altair
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| | Personal Computer Milestones |
| | The Altair, introduced in January 1975, was the first computer to be produced in fairly high quantity, and it was the first computer to run Microsoft software, but we're not sure that's a good thing. | | | Like the Altair, it was available from the manufacturer both as a kit and as a pre-assembled computer. | | | Unfortunately for computer history buffs, the Altair is often mistakenly called the first personal computer by Microsoft-loving journalists who don't know any better. |
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http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
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| | MITS Altair 8800 computer |
| | The Altair 8800, from Micro Instrumentation Telemetry Systems (MITS) of Albuquerque, NM, was first featured in the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics. | | | Numerous computers from other manufacturers were designed around the S-100 bus - the IMSAI 8800 was the first - the first computer clone. | | | This became a very popular method of making computers, and the Altair bus became an industry standard, but MITS didn't appreciate it being renamed as the S-100 bus. |
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http://oldcomputers.net/altair.html
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| | MITS ALTAIR 8800 |
| | First, the Altair was not the first computer featured as a construction article in a national electronics magazine. | | | Second, the Altair was offered as a complete kit, not just a list of parts to buy in order to make a computer. | | | The Altair articles ran for several issues of Popular Electronics, and as a result MITS was deluged with orders. |
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http://www.pc-history.org/altair.htm
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| | Altair from FOLDOC |
| | Later versions supported the 8K Altair and the 16K diskette-based Altair (demonstrating that, even in the 1970s, Microsoft was committed to software bloat). | | | They realized that the Altair, which was programmed via its binary front panel needed a high level language. | | | Since there was no operating system on the Altair, Altair BASIC included what we now think of as BIOS. |
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http://www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?Altair
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| | MicrosoftHistory - Technoasis - Neuroasis |
| | MITS promotes Altair BASIC, the computer language developed by Gates and Allen for the Altair computer. | | | The MITS Altair inspired a new generation of technology enthusiasts, including Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who were among the first of these early hobbyists to realize that the key to the future of personal computing lay in the unlimited potential of software. | | | Using the Altair's published specifications, Gates and Allen created a simulator on a DEC PDP-10 computer that allowed it to emulate the MITS machine. |
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http://www.neuroasis.com/cgi-bin/twiki/bin/view/Technoasis/MicrosoftHistory
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Programming: Languages: BASIC |
| | VMM Basic - A virtual machine that execute a byte-code program, compiled from language, the syntax is similar to Basic languages, that have intern motion detection commands, intern sprite commands based on DirectX, network commands, for simplify game development. | | | History of BASIC - A history of one of the most commonly used programming languages. | | | GFA Basic Windows Programming - This site is designed to give users of GFA Basic Windows help. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/BASIC
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| | MITS Altair 8800 |
| | The Altair 8800 was far from the first "Personal Computer" but it was the first truly successful one. | | | Altair 8" Disk drives with controller cards, ADM-3A terminal, ASR 33 teletype, various software including Altair Disk BASIC, Altair DOS, Fortran, Timeshare BASIC, etc. Manuals for all hardware and software. | | | These are of the bare MITS 4 slot motherboards as originally shipped with the Altair computers (both top and bottom) and of the Altair front panel. |
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http://www.vintage-computer.com/altair8800.shtml
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| | Microsoft BASIC version information |
| | The BASIC programming language was developed at Dartmouth College in the mid-1960's by professors John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz, as a vehicle to be used to teach programming. | | | It ran in 4 kilobytes (that's not a typo; *kilibytes*) on the Altair 8800, which was based on the Intel 8080A processor. | | | Paul Allen and Bill Gates developed a version of BASIC for the Altair computer, being built by MITS of Albuquerque, NM, in themid-1970's. |
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http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msbasv.htm
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| | The Online Software Museum - CP/M |
| | This is that BASIC, which drove the sales of the machine, as it was the only high level language or operating system available for it for the first few years. | | | Altair Hardware: Information on the Altair's hardware configurations. | | | Connect to the Altair Computer: Boot up BASIC and try it out for yourself! |
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http://museum.sysun.com/museum/alt.html
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| | altair-basic |
| | The letter was not to the Homebrew Computer Club (of which I was a member at the time), but rather to a the MITS Altair Users' Newsletter, in New Mexico. | | | The software in question had been created on a taxpayer-subsidised PDP-10 (running an 8080 emulator) at Harvard, and also there was very strong, reasonable suspicion that Gates, Allen, and Davidoff had "borrowed" from several other people's BASIC inplementations without their authors' permission. | | | Also, and less relevantly, Micro-Soft was already getting a reputation for questionable business deals: If you were buying MITS dodgy boards, Micro-Soft's Altair BASIC was $150. |
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http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Legacy_Microsoft/altair-basic.html
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| | BASIC Programming and Chipmunk Basic Home Page |
| | Chipmunk Basic was featured in the Programming Paradigms column of the December 1995 issue of Dr. | | | Basic in 8085 asm - by David Dunfield | | | A large collection of Classic Basic programs including BASIC Computer Games by David Ahl. |
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http://www.nicholson.com/rhn/basic
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| | Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks about Linux, CPRM and that very frightening photo The Register |
| | By the time the 4k BASIC was done, the 8k version was out." Incredibly, the three of them produced the interpreter without seeing the MITS Altair itself - the coding and debugging was done entirely on a simulator. | | | In fact the 8k version had algorithms that were more efficient but that took up more space. | | | Twenty six years ago the microprocessor revolution found a software catalyst - a tiny BASIC interpreter that ran in 4K of memory. |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/11/microsoft_altair_basic_legend_talks
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| | Altair Basic for the 6800 |
| | In Janurary 1978 I purchased Altair 680 Basic from Computer Kits in Berkeley CA. | | | Here are scans of the MITS Altair BASIC Manual | | | Paul Allen and Mark Chamblerlin wrote the 680 PROM Monitor (Computer Notes, March 1976, page 9) |
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http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/Altair/Altair_Basic.htm
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| | The Online Software Museum |
| | Your browser should bring up a "telnet" window in which BASIC will be booted. | | | Try the DEL key on your keyboard instead, it will probably work like backspace; and 2) Filenames on Altair disks are case sensitive... | | | This may have been written by Bill Gates, at least, in an interview for the Smithsonian he talks about writing a sine wave print program to test BASIC. |
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http://museum.sysun.com/museum/altconn.html
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| | [#] ONLY BOOKMARK THE INDEX! [#] |
| | 2001-Jul-21 Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha and VAX Systems (User) | | | 2002-Oct-21 Joel Ricker's History of Programming Languages (BASIC) (was at PrettyHipProgramming.com/graph/lang.jpg) | | | 2001-Jul-21 Compaq BASIC for OpenVMS Alpha and VAX Systems (Ref) |
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http://www.voicenet.com/~mwalden/topic230.htm
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| | The SIMH Altair 8800 Z80 simulator |
| | The package below contains a sample collection of sample software for the original Altair 8800 including the famous 4k Basic. | | | Altair Disk Extended Basic Version 300-5-C (made available by Scott LaBombard) | | | Manuals for the Digital Research products can be found in the Tim Olmstead Memorial CP/M Library |
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http://www.schorn.ch/cpm/intro.html
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| | Raiders of the Lost Altair BASIC Source Code The Register |
| | As promised, here's the story of what happened to the source code for the Gates-Allen-Davidoff 4K BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair. | | | Griffiths' friend Reuben Harris, a programmer based in London, has been disassembling the earliest Altair BASIC he could find. | | | Raiders of the Lost Altair BASIC Source Code |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/05/13/raiders_of_the_lost_altair
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| | Liberty BASIC - Easy Programming for Windows |
| | At just $29.95, Liberty BASIC costs less than most programming books. | | | It's not approachable - Most programming languages are not laid out in an easy to use way, or they require you to buy extra books to learn them. | | | Programming language software can cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars. |
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http://www.libertybasic.com
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| | Hanoi: BASIC |
| | We have written 6800 BASIC, and are writing 8080 APL and 6800 APL, but there is very little incentive to make this software available to hobbyists. | | | As the majority of hobbyists must be aware, most of you steal your software. | | | A BASIC langauge implementation of The Towers of Hanoi. |
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http://www.kernelthread.com/hanoi/html/bas.html
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| | homebrew computer club: Information From Answers.com |
| | The Homebrew members were hobbyists, but most of them had an electronic engineering or programming background. | | | They came to the meetings to talk about the Altair 8800 and other technical topics, and to exchange schematics and programming tips. | | | From its ranks came the founders of many microcomputer companies—for example Bob Marsh, Adam Osborne, and Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak—the famous Apple founders. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/homebrew-computer-club
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| | ALTAIR HYPERMESH BASIC TRAINING COURSE |
| | Solver-specific operations, such as defining material and element properties, specifying element and load types, and creating load steps are covered in preparation of running the analysis using Altair's OptiStruct/FEA solver. | | | Faculty members or students from any university in Ohio interested in using Altair HyperMesh | | | Learn how to best apply the HyperMesh mesh generation tools in generating both shell and solid element meshes. |
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http://www.osc.edu/hpc/notices/r1034717417.html
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| | Altair Basic - Some Assembly Required |
| | You want to see the source for the original Altair Basic interpreter? | | | For this one, I would like to give a great thanks to Ian for posting the following information. |
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http://geekswithblogs.net/jolson/archive/2004/09/01/10547.aspx
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