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Re:Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's origin... by phkahler on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:57PM (#43577257)
I still have a cassette tape with Microsoft Basic for the Interact computer. It's got an 8080.
Re:Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's origin... by thesuitonym on Friday April 04, 2025 @09:26AM (#43582015)
You should upload the audio to the Internet Archive!
Re:Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's origin... by thijson on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:51AM (#43583294)
I remember my old Tandy Color Computer booting up and referencing Microsoft BASIC:

https://tinyurl.com/2jttvjzk

The computer came with some pretty good books with example BASIC programs to type in.

Re:Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's origin... by vile_wretch on Friday April 04, 2025 @02:02PM (#43585833)
I have a MS Extended Basic cassette for the Sol-20, also 8080 based.