12 Development 1
AN: Short time skip later just preparations for the TS
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(Time 1971, Tony 1 yr old 1 wk)
Jarvis
He finally completed the accelerated training program for Tony.
He was going to remind Howard about this since the man probably forgot all about Tony's advanced classes.
If Jarvis did not remind him that they finally gathered all the teaching materials, he might have continued working on the arc reactor core material research.
The man got another breakthrough but weeks of follow up work have put Howard back to another bottleneck.
Back to the training, after this is complete, Tony should be able to be credited with any degree he would want. Of course getting a degree from MIT would make things easier for the butler.
Tony started the super scientist program.
(AN: They know Tony understands basic english already)
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First day of class
Tony got shown the mathematics tables of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division.
Tony: I'm bored.
Tony regretted showing so little of his current strength. He decided to show off his eidetic memory.
Jarvis: But young master, this is essential.
Tony: I memorised everything.
Jarvis started testing just to entertain his young master. He wanted to entertain his young master in order to not cause a bad reaction.
He was surprise when Tony finished the exam in seconds. It looks like he needed to improve the training plan.
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Tony 1yr 1mo old
Tony finished 3rd grade in science and math.
Tony finished 1 grade every week. It was more like one subject per half a day. He spent the afternoons playing/training his body's coordination.
Jarvis tried to teach him history and other humanities but Tony won't even listen. Jarvis did not insist since even he knew that history is written by the winners or the most powerful.
Howard was proud that his son did not show interest in something so subjective.
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At night.
Tony just finished setting up his programming languages down to the assembly language. (AN: language that communicates directly to processor.) He only needed to input the processor specifications and the program would be able to map and apply the most optimized setup to run commands.
Since he was starting to use up quite a bit of memory of the nanites, he started showing interest in getting one of the computers.
Computers were still the text interface only devices that only professionals used.
The internet was also not yet publicly available.
There was no way any rated R content would be in it yet. (AN: not sure if this is true. but if I know engineers, there was probably already plenty by that time haha)
He felt that there was no reason his father would not allow him to get his own.
The next morning, Tony watched one of those TV ads so that he had a reason to demand one. A few puppy eyes later, he had his own basic server ready in his room..
He was not that happy when he tested it though. With the current technology, he was sure that any gaming computer from 2010 would be able to outmatch this server stack that he had just built.
The next day after they finished setting up Tony's server computer, Howard taught Tony how to program. There were not that much in programming yet since most programs are still basics. By the end of the week Tony was already a compentent programmer in Howard's eyes.
Maria was happy seeing the father and son bond (AN: Sorry got no data other than loving mother so just going stereotype.)
One of the days they left Tony to play with his computer, they saw him open up a text software and started typing.
Tony knew that everyone was secretly watching what he will do first after being left alone.
Tony started running his program and behold, one of the most popular games was born.
PONG
(AN: AI enemy mode sold separately. Annoying DLC's )
Tony invented the game a year earlier than pong was supposed to. He wanted to get a source of income for himself that the public could know of. Besides, he could just make his father buy a company to sell his products.
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Howard POV
Howard was surprised while at the same time felt a little guilty. He wants Tony to have friends but he was still too young. If he plays with the kids of his mental age, Tony would just get picked on.
He also can't just let anyone related to him play with Tony. They might take advantage of Howard through Tony.
Tony started play testing Pong.
Howard wanted to encourage Tony so he decided to walk in and act interested in the game.
As Howard started playing against Tony and the "bot" he learned that this game has potential. It looks like Tony did not need to ask his father for funding.
The next day, Howard bought went to Atari to schedule a meeting.He picked that company just because it was first the the alphabetical list he was given. He negotiated with the owners to buy the company. Since he wanted to gift the company to his son, he never asked for control from the current owners. He wanted to give this as a gift for Tony so Howard just let the management do their own work.
The management was happy to sell as well since they saw no threat to their current control. The next generation board might have a threat but they did not care since they would be retired by then. They decided to let the future board handle this.
Howard then "created" a research group that coincidentally built Pong. He set the patent for Tony while funding the distribution of the game. Since Tony owned the game, they could not do anything about it since Howard "owned" the company. They also really didn't care since they were not spending any money just a logo..
The next week when Tony asked for more hardware upgrades due to the memory limit filling up with the games he built. He was surprised that they were already ready hidden in the garage.
He was also secretly surprised when they got Tony a contract that he signed with his thumbprint. He was happy since he figured out that he had no more restrictions when spending money to buy all the computer hardware he wants. He just needs to ask Jarvis
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