He thinks he's overcome the battery problem with one developed by Reno's Altair Nano-technologies.
Altair owners, nearly all of them hobbyists, don't think they should pay for software.
From Jan. 30: Paul Allen and Bill Gates didn't write BASIC, but Altair BASIC, a programming language.
Bill Gates always revered the early guidance he received from Dr. Ed Roberts, creator of the Altair 8800.
In January 1975 Popular Electronics put the Altair 8800 microcomputer on its cover.
The company's first product was an adaptation of the Basic programming language used in the Altair 8800, a kit computer.
Altair of Troy, Mich. has a lead over its rivals in a particularly interesting field called topology optimization, according to research firm CIMdata.
Gates and Allen's version of the code was called Altair BASIC.
The prototype for the industry, the Altair, appeared in the mid-1970s.
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Altair was the best-looking character of the new generation of consoles.
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"Community foundations provide donors the opportunity to invest alongside larger, more established funders, " says Richard Black, founding partner and managing director at wealth management firm Altair Advisers.
They wrote an interpreter for the Basic programming language that would run on the Altair and showed it to Ed Roberts, the president of MITS, which manufactured the Altair.
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One of the items they took this way was a component critical for making their Altair systems work: the BASIC computer language, written by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Meanwhile Microsoft got underway developing software for the Altair.
In the summer of 1975 a Harvard junior, Bill Gates, drove to Albuquerque and with his friend Paul Allen started a company, Micro-Soft, to write an operating system called BASIC for the Altair 8800.
Altair Nanotechnologies is working with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the University of Hawaii to supply a 2 megawatt energy storage system to maintain grid stability, all using its nano-scale processing technology that it says provides rapid charging.
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