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The source code is linked at the end (warning: it's a 100 MB PDF). https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3

• mysterydip 2y ago
  Ironic for something designed to take up only 4KB on its target machine :)
  • paulddraper 2y ago
    (It's a high-res image of the printed code.)
• seabass-labrax 2y ago
  Thank you for the warning. I once used up my Internet package's entire monthly quota by following a similar link on Hacker News.
• masfuerte 2y ago
  Nice one. Has anyone OCRed this back into text?
  • pronoiac 2y ago
    I attempted OCR with OCRmyPDF / Tesseract. It's not great, but it's under 1% the size, at least. https://github.com/pronoiac/altair-basic-source-code https://github.com/pronoiac/altair-basic-source-code
    • noname120 2y ago
      Maybe you should try something like EasyOCR instead: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR
      • pronoiac 2y ago
        Feel free to run EasyOCR against it and submit a PR
• pdw 2y ago
  The printout is dated 10-SEP-75 and is labeled "VERSION 3.0 -- MORE FEATURES TO GO". Curiously this isn't the oldest extant version of the source code. The Harvard archives have a copy of version 1.1, printed on 30 April 75. http://altairbasic.org/other%20versions/ian.htm http://altairbasic.org/other%20versions/ian.htm
  • Aardwolf 2y ago
    The printout also contains dates 6-SEP-64 below it, any idea what those are?