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.
学校主要靠家长提供的资金通过一种电传打字机进入电脑——即程序数据处理机。
在电传打字机上键入几条指令，几秒钟后程序数据处理机即会反馈回信息。
比尔·盖茨当即就着了迷——他那时最要好的朋友坎特——他那时最要好的朋友坎特·埃文斯和另一名长他两岁的学生保罗·艾伦也是如此。
他们不管有没有空，都要赶到电脑室去用用那台机器。
这些学生非常专注，以至于在电脑方面的知识都超过了老师，同时因为他们的执著也带来了不少麻烦。
他们忽略了其他的课程——每项作业都迟迟才交，有时还旷课。
上机时间也很昂贵。几个月后，当初留做一年用的预算就已经消耗殆尽了。
比尔十四岁时，就已开始编写简短的运行电脑的程序了。
早期的游戏程序如“三棋杀三子”，或“画圈打叉游戏”，及“登月”就是用后来成为比尔的第二种语言 BASIC 来写的。
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