If i was a human bill gates6/17/2023 ![]() And without copyright – they never asked for it. But he said, “Yes.” Real quick, he found an operating system from another person in Seattle and bought it. Did he somehow know it would be worth a lot in the future? So he started to be a copyright guru.įive years later IBM knocked on Bill’s door to see if he had written an operating system they could buy. The computer company bought it for $3,000. When they were done, Bill flew to New Mexico to show this new language he had written called BASIC. Bill coded all day long, slept at the computer, woke up and picked up programming exactly where he left off. Bill wrote 50% of the code, using Harvard’s computers. Next Bill sat down with his friend Paul from high school, and the two wrote that programming language that he talked about on the phone. ![]() And, yes, the computer company was very interested in buying. He hadn’t even started to write the language. (He hadn’t.) He asked if they might buy it. He called them to say that he wrote a programming language for it. Only to find himself unsure about where to start – as a pre-law major or as something else? Reading Popular Mechanics one day in college he read an ad about a new computer. Next, Bill scored 1590 out of 1600 on SAT. Then the school realized he had a rare skill so they asked him to use the computer and help them find bugs. When money ran out, he hacked into the computer to use it for free. The school he went to bought one machine and a teletype.
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