More interesting is Paul Allen and what little he really did to justify being one of the richest men in the world.
lets see, Paul Allen was the one that showed Bill gates the electronics article showing the intc chip the 8080... inspiring them both to form a software company....
Paul Allen helped write the first version of the MSFT version of BASIC.... which is the whole reason IBM contacted MSFT........
Paul Allen showed gates the article in Popular Electronics. The cover read, "World's First Minicomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models … Altair 8800." inspiring Gates to drop out of HARVARD at Allen's prodding, so they could jump into this new field with both feet.....
The next month, February 1975, it was Paul Allen who met with Ed Roberts, owner of MITS, to demonstrate his and Gates' newly written BASIC for the Altair..... which by the way, according to Allen ran exactly as advertised on the Altair, despite him sweating for a week that it wouldn't work.....
Paul Allen was the person who knew Tim Patterson, not Bill Gates.... or they would have never had a deal with IBM......
i think it would be more accurate to call Bill Gates the accidental Billionaire.......
amazing what people like you do to butcher history...... hard to read such ignorance..........
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