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Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, investor, film producer, explorer, and philanthropist. He co-founded Microsoft Corporation with his childhood friend Bill Gates in 1975, which helped spark the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
Nov 14, 2019 · The two would go on to found one of the biggest tech companies in history, Microsoft, a few short years later. But when Paul Allen and Bill Gates learned to code, they treated it like a puzzle. That approach helped them become two of the most successful self-taught programmers in history.
The article inspires Paul Allen and Bill Gates to develop a BASIC language for the Altair. February 1, 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen complete Altair BASIC and sell it to Microsoft’s first customer, MITS of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the first computer language program for a personal computer.
Idea Man: A Memoir by the Cofounder of Microsoft is a memoir by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, published in 2011 by Portfolio, a Penguin Group imprint. A New York Times Best Seller , the book recounts how Allen became enamored with computers at an early age, conceived the idea for Microsoft, recruited his friend Bill Gates to join ...
May 8, 2024 · Two young men, Paul Allen, and Bill Gates, proposed to the maker of the first PC, Ed Roberts' Altair 8800, that they port BASIC to his computer.
May 3, 2015 · Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates 40 years ago, says the most daunting task the company faces is getting momentum in the mobile market.
Honeywell engineer Paul Allen and his friend Bill Gates—then still at Harvard—wrote a version of BASIC that would run on the new machine, becoming Microsoft’s first-ever software product.
