Funds were raised, mainly by parents, that enabled the school to gain access to a computer—a Program Data processor (PDP)—through a teletype machine.
Type in a few instructions on the teletype machine and a few seconds later the PDP would type back its response.
Bill Gates was immediately hooked— so was his best friend at the time, Kent Evans, and another student, Paul Allen, who was two years older than Bill.
Whenever they had free time, and sometimes when they didn't, they would dash over to the computer room to use the machine.
The students became so single-minded that they soon overtook their teachers in knowledge about computing and got into a lot of trouble because of their obsession.
They were neglecting their other studies—every piece of word was handed in late. Classes were cut.
Computer time was also proving to be very expensive. Within months, the whole budget that had been set aside for the year had been used up.
At fourteen, Bill was already writing short programs for the computer to perform.
Early games programs such as Tic-Tac-Toe, or Noughts and Crosses, and Lunar Landing were written in what was to become Bill's second language, BASIC.
學校主要靠家長提供的資金通過一種電傳打字機進入電腦——即程序數(shù)據(jù)處理機。
在電傳打字機上鍵入幾條指令，幾秒鐘后程序數(shù)據(jù)處理機即會反饋回信息。
比爾·蓋茨當即就著了迷——他那時最要好的朋友坎特——他那時最要好的朋友坎特·埃文斯和另一名長他兩歲的學生保羅·艾倫也是如此。
他們不管有沒有空，都要趕到電腦室去用用那臺機器。
這些學生非常專注，以至于在電腦方面的知識都超過了老師，同時因為他們的執(zhí)著也帶來了不少麻煩。
他們忽略了其他的課程——每項作業(yè)都遲遲才交，有時還曠課。
上機時間也很昂貴。幾個月后，當初留做一年用的預算就已經(jīng)消耗殆盡了。
比爾十四歲時，就已開始編寫簡短的運行電腦的程序了。
早期的游戲程序如“三棋殺三子”，或“畫圈打叉游戲”，及“登月”就是用后來成為比爾的第二種語言 BASIC 來寫的。
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