The useful computer then was the IBM Series, the 360. Fortran, or Cobol, typing each line onto a paper card on a big steel typewriter punch machine, then take the cards up to the window for the batch operator to place on the machine stack reader. It was this way till 1980. Or use a tele-terminal with the phone handset inserted into rubber speaker and microphone pits, at 300 baud. The Apple II had just come out with 64 k bytes of RAM, and first a 40 character wide screen, then 80. My Apple II was better, with 128 k RAM. No hard drive, one 5.25 inch floppy drive. Basic was installed in the Apple II as an afterthought, in ROM, because marketers wanted the computer to be able to do useful work immediately when turned on, without having to load anything. To understand this time, the book is:
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (about 1981), Which covers the development of the microcode and hardware for the revolutionary VAX computer by Digital Equipment Corp in Maynard Massachusetts, which was the IBM slayer. Wang also was founded about this time in Lowell Massachusetts. Both went extinct.
Gates interest in computers began at age 13. To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at Harvard at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when Selective Service registration was suspended early in April 1975. He moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories under the name Microsoft in July. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as MS-DOS.
William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney. Under the DARPA program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the United States Government cannot own a patent. Gates father also served as the head of Planned Parenthood.
25019177? ago
What computers were around when he was 7
25019120? ago
The useful computer then was the IBM Series, the 360. Fortran, or Cobol, typing each line onto a paper card on a big steel typewriter punch machine, then take the cards up to the window for the batch operator to place on the machine stack reader. It was this way till 1980. Or use a tele-terminal with the phone handset inserted into rubber speaker and microphone pits, at 300 baud. The Apple II had just come out with 64 k bytes of RAM, and first a 40 character wide screen, then 80. My Apple II was better, with 128 k RAM. No hard drive, one 5.25 inch floppy drive. Basic was installed in the Apple II as an afterthought, in ROM, because marketers wanted the computer to be able to do useful work immediately when turned on, without having to load anything. To understand this time, the book is:
Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (about 1981), Which covers the development of the microcode and hardware for the revolutionary VAX computer by Digital Equipment Corp in Maynard Massachusetts, which was the IBM slayer. Wang also was founded about this time in Lowell Massachusetts. Both went extinct.
25019090? ago
https://voat.co/v/thinkdrafts/3828135
https://voat.co/v/videos/3951229/24971471
25018913? ago
Coding for computers which didn't exist in 1962?
25018981? ago
You're right, did some research he said he started at age 13.
25019523? ago
Your'e believing bullshit.
Exactly what computer would he be coding for in 1967 when he was in 7th grade?
Don't believe everything you see on the internet.
25018897? ago
https://archive.ph/wip/BWnCb
https://nitter.net/HousatonicITS/status/1290014200476049409 :
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25018828? ago
So his resume probably a lie