Bill gates

Bill Gates born October 28 1955 in Seattle, Washington, Age 64, co-founder of microsoft.

His father was a Lawyer and his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate

BancSystem and the United Way of America. His Father is still alive but his

Mother died June 10, 1994 (aged 64).

Early Life-

At 13, he enrolled in the private lakeside prep school, where he wrote his first software program.

Gates was interested in coding the GE system in BASIC so much that he asked to be excused

from math classes to pursue his interest, he wrote his first computer program on this machine. 

After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, Gates and other students sought time on

systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to

Computer Center Corporation which was banned for the summer Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland,

and Gates's best friend and first business partner Kent Evans, after it caught them exploiting

bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time. The four students formed the Lakeside

Programmers Club to make money. At the end of the ban, they offered to find bugs in CCC's

software in exchange for extra computer time.

Questions ↓

                 

Question 1: What first got Bill Gates interested in coding?

In class he got access to a Teletype connected by a 110 baud modem to a

GE MARK II time-sharing system.

Question 2: How Did Bill Gates rise to fame?

Bill Gates rose to fame while he was making Microsoft, A multi billion dollar corporation.

Microsoft is worth over $1 trillion dollars.