Reporter runs Marc Andreessen's 14-year-old BASIC code in a TRS-80 simulator
dinabass · x · 2026-10-16
While decoding Marc Andreessen for a Bloomberg profile, reporter Austin Carr unearthed some of the earliest BASIC code written by a 14-year-old Andreessen — and ran the string through a TRS-80 simulator, joking it's "one of the first Andreessen-backed apps."
The piece, cited by Brad Stone, is described as the most insightful story yet on Andreessen's legendary career as investor and entrepreneur, including his long strange history of concocted grudges.
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