Gates and Allen 1
College Gates Attended.
Harvard
Company they both worked for debugging code when Gates was 13.
CCC
Company that manufactured the Altair.
MITS
The company David Ahl worked for.
DEC
Ahl wanted to get computers into the hands of regular people rather than companies. Which department did he work in to accomplish that?
Education
While in HS Gates worked in Vancouver WA. What did he buy soon after he started working there?
A speedboat.
The original name for Microsoft.
Traf-O-Data
What magazine was the Altair on the cover of in January of 1975?
Popular Electronics.
Cost of an Intel 8080 Chip.
360
What happens to the memory in an Altair when powered off?
Everything is lost(Volatile)
Gates designed a tester for what boards that MITS was developing?
4K memory boards.
Gates started working for a large software company in WA when he was in HS. What was the company name?
TRW
What happened to the Altair sent to NY for the magazine cover?
It was lost in shipping.
How many slots were in the Altair system board?
18
What was the price Roberts paid for 8080 chips?
$75
When Gates moved to MITS what was he brought there to work on?
Code so that a disk drive could communicate with the Altair.
Gates crashed the CDC network. What was it called?
Cybernet.
The founder of MITS was.
Ed Roberts.
Name of the meetings that took place in CA where people shared new technology and software.
Homebrew Computer Club.
What did MITS sell before the Altair?
Calculator kits.
To run BASIC on the Altair how many switches had to be flipped?
30,000.
Allen moved to Albuquerque to work for MITS. What was his title?
Director of Software.
Which chip was in the Altair?
Intel 8080
What show did the name Altair come from?
Star Trek
What was the title of David Ahl's book?
BASIC computer games.