If, like my ZDNET colleague David Gerwitz and I, you were tinkering with computers in 1975 , you badly wanted an MITS Altair 8080 computer , the first PC. To build software on it, most of us used Altair BASIC . A pair of college dropouts named Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote the language. Then they formed a company, Micro Soft , to sell it. You know that company better as Microsoft. Also: Microsoft at 50: Its incredible rise, 15 lost years, and stunning comeback in 4 charts In...
