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Bill Gates Born
Born as William Henry Gates III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates -
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life
Birth till now Gates has been around for 62 years, and has developed huge company Microsoft. -
Entered Lakeview Preparatory School
gained an interest in Programming in the GE computer language and in programming in general. -
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Work with CCC
Bill and friends worked with the Computer Center Corporation (CCC) in exchange for more computer time after being banned for using bugs to ger more computer time himself. -
Graduated from Lakeview
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Servered as a Congressional Page in the US House of Representatives.
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Enrolled at Harvard
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Work at Honeywell
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Beginning of Microsoft
Created a BASIC interpreter for the MITS Altair 8800, Officially created a business in the state of New Mexico on 11/26/1976. -
Partnership with IBM
Microsoft gets into a partnership with IBM, and Gates takes on the responsibility to review every piece of code the fledgling company made. -
QDOS
While working woth IBM, Gates came up with QDOS -
restructuring and MS-DOS
MS-DOS is created and takes off, giving Gates freedom from how others(IBM) wanted -
First Windows Edition