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Bill Gates Bill Gates, cofounder of the Microsoft corporation, holds
30. ... Bill Gates first
interest in computers began at Lakeside, a private school in Seattle that
Gates attended. ... It was for playing tic-tac-toe"(Gates 1). It was at
Lakeside that Gates met Paul Allen, who later became cofounder with Gates
of Microsoft. There they became friends and "began to mess around with the
computer"(Gates 2). ... "This is what drove me to the commercial side of the
software business"(Gates 12). Gates, Allen and a few others from Lakeside
got entry-level software programming jobs. One of Gates early programs
that he likes to brag about was written at this time. ... "I surreptitiously added a few
instructions and found myself nearly the only guy in a class full of
girls"(Gates 12). ... Gates attempted to write a version of BASIC (Beginners
All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for the new Intel chip, but the
chip did not contain enough transistors to handle it. Gates and Allen
found a way to use the 8008 and "started Traf-O-Data, a computer traffic
analysis company"(Clayton 452) It worked well however, marketing their new
machine proved to be impossible. "No one actually wanted to buy the
machine, at least not from a couple teenagers"(Gates 14). Gates and Allen
had more less successful endeavors in starting a software company. ... We got no takers"(Gates 15). ... Steve Ballmer and Gates "took a tough graduate- level economics
course together- Economics 2010. The professor allowed you to bet your
whole grade on the final if you choose"(Gates 40). ... During
one of these slack off periods, Gates and Allen found a very small
computer: the Altair 8800 "(Altair was a destination in a Star Trek
episode)"(Gates 16). ... In time we named it Microsoft"(Gates 17). Gates left
Harvard on leave in 1975.
Approximate Word count = 1519
Approximate Pages = 6.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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