"Idea Man"

In high school, Gates and Allen honed their programming skills on a DEC minicomputer owned by a local company, C-Cubed . But as students, they didn't have access to as much information as the company's employees, which frustrated them. So at night, Allen would boost the smaller Gates up to the top of the company's dumpsters, where he'd look for interesting stuff. Once, they found a printout of the TOPS-10 source code, and it unlocked a lot of secrets. 

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