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He wrote his first computer program on this machine, an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. [17]
"An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.
Gates and Allen bought computer time from a timesharing service in Boston to complete their BASIC program debugging. When fellow Harvard student Monte Davidoff stated he believed the system should use floating-point arithmetic instead of the integer arithmetic of the original versions, and claimed he could write such a system that could still ...
In the early '80s, Jobs flew up to Washington to sell Gates on the possibility of making Microsoft software for the Apple Macintosh computer, with its revolutionary graphical user interface ...
Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates looked at the big picture and the small picture as he was growing his software company in the early years.. In an interview with CNBC's Make It published on ...
Bill Gates first introduced the first version of Microsoft Windows and it is planned to be released 2 years later. [5] 1984: January 24: Competition: Steve Jobs introduces the original Macintosh, the first mass-market computer with a graphical user interface. Microsoft would later adopt many of its features into Windows. [citation needed] 1985 ...
In a speech, Gates said the company was "based on this wild idea that nobody else agreed with -- that computer chips were going to become so powerful that computers and software would become a ...
First microcomputer implementation of BASIC by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It was written for the MITS Altair. This led to the formation of Microsoft later in the year. 1975: US Unix marketed (see 1969). 1975: NOR: Norwegian company Mycron releases its MYCRO-1, the first single-board computer. 1975: US Formation of Microsoft by Bill Gates and ...