Microsoft BASIC

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easter egg

Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC (pagetable.com) If you type “WAIT6502,1” into a Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979), it will show the string “MICROSOFT!” at the top left corner of the screen. Legend has it Bill Gates himself inserted this easter egg “after he had had an argument with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel”, “just in case Commodore ever tried to claim that the code wasn’t from Microsoft”.

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The History Behind Minneapolis’s Alphabetized Street Names (racketmn.com) The most common street names in the United States are what you would expect: First, Second, Third, Park, Main, Cedar, etc. But what about Bryant, Upton, Washburn, or Dupont?

source code

Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Original Source Code [1978] (pagetable.com) This is the original 1978 source code of Microsoft BASIC for 6502 with all original comments, documentation and easter eggs

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Wikipedia

Microsoft BASIC (Wikipedia) Microsoft BASIC is the foundation software product of the Microsoft company and evolved into a line of BASIC interpreters and compiler(s) adapted for many different microcomputers. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first version of BASIC published by Microsoft as well as the first high-level programming language available for the Altair 8800 microcomputer.