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What was the name of the language Gates and Allen sold Ed Roberts?

It was Altair Basic: an Altair emulator that would run on a mini-computer and the Basic interpreter.


When did Bill Gates make Microsoft?

Bill Gates made Microsoft in 1970 after getting out of Harvard University. He made it with Paul Allen. There is a team who made it with him. Those people are : Steve Wood , Bob Wallace, Jim Lane, Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood. Bill Gates and Paul Allen is one of them.


When did bill gates start computer programming?

when he was 13.


Is it true that Bill Gates wrote his first program at age 13?

Yes, he wrote his first program at 13 with the local school's Teletype Model 33. It was a simple tic-tac-toe game that allowed the user to play against the computer. He wrote the program in BASIC. He and Paul Allen met at this time, and they went in to business together only two years later, netting $20,000 with a software called Trafo-Data. Soon getting a contract to provide a operating system for IBM and the rest was history.


Why did Bill Gates become a inventor?

Bill Gates, from a well-off family, was enrolled at age 13 in an exclusive college preparatory school where he had the opportunity, courtesy of the Mothers Club, to use computers. He showed talent early, writing programs in BASIC and then later in other languages. He loved how a computer could perfectly execute a set of instructions designed to do whatever you needed the machine to do. By age 16 he was writing his school's class scheduling program. He formed, with Paul Allen, his first business at age 17. With extremely high test scores, he was accepted at Harvard, where he spent lots of time on computers and forged friendships with other students who would later be his business partners. Bill Gates invented computer software not just because of his love of the computer but very much because of his entreprenurial nature and a desire to profit from his work through businesses of his own.