The story of Bill Gates Leaves Harvard For Chasing Dreams
June 16th, 2011
December 1974, when they want to visit Bill Gates, Paul Allen read Popular Electronics magazine article with the title of World’s First Microcomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models. This article contains about the first Altair 9090 microcomputer. Allen then discussed with Bill Gates. They realize that the era of home computers will be coming soon and explode, making the availability of software for the computer – the computer is needed. And this is a great opportunity for them.
Then in a few days, Gates contacted the manufacturer of the Altair, MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems). He said that he and Allen have made ??a BASIC that can be used on the Altair. Of course this is a lie. Even they did not write a single line of code. MITS, who did not know this, very interested in BASIC. Within 8 weeks of BASIC have been prepared. Allen headed to present MITS BASIC. And although, this is the first time for Allen to operate the Altair, it can work perfectly BASIC. A year later, Bill Gates left Harvard and founded Microsoft.
The story of Bill Gates Leaves Harvard For Chasing Dreams
When he was bored with Harvard, Gates applying for jobs related to computers in the Boston area. Gates Paul Allen encouraged to try to apply as a program maker in Honey-well so that they can continue their dream to establish a software company.