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Билл Гейтс. Bill Gates was born October 28, 1955. He was the first child and only son in a family of well-known lawyer from Seattle. His mother also held a prominent position in society. He had two younger sisters. Secondary education in private schools. Parents expect that he will follow his father and went to Harvard Law School.
However, by the seventh grade, Bill became interested in computers and wanted to become a professor of mathematics. When Bill and his high school friend Paul Allen went to middle school, mothers' clubs Leyksaydskoy school collected money for the purchase of computers for the students.
This has changed the life of Bill. He and Allen programming process so carried away that they could escape from the gym to play with the computer. According to Allen, they stay long in school until 4 in the morning, making the program, and spent at the computer all weekend. At eleven, Gates was eager to win a trip to the restaurant, "Spacey Seattle Needle," which was the prize in the contest organized by the local pastor. For this it was necessary to learn the "Sermon on the Mount," which included three chapters of Matthew. According to biographer Uolleysu and Erickson, Gates outlined sermon flawlessly. Later he says: "I can do everything that will put your intelligence." According to Ann Stephens, a teacher from high school, Gates once literally reproduced the three-page monologue from a play by James Farber, running his eyes once.
Gates and Allen entered the world of business in fifteen years. They wrote a program to control the traffic and formed a company to its spread. It's called "Tref-0-Data". Their fate was such that they made on this project $ 20,000. and never went to high school. By the age of seventeen Gates already had a reputation and received an offer to write a software package for the distribution of energy Bonneville Dam. Over a year's work on this project Gates received 30,000 dollars. It was his first and last income as an emploе.
Enterprising young Gates made this work and concluded an agreement with the school that it is reckoned that instead of the majority of course work provided for the school students. At seventeen, Gates went to a preparatory course at Harvard, intending to continue or to follow his father, or to become a professor of mathematics. According to him, he was there in body but not the soul. Most of his time at Harvard, he was playing pinball, bridge and poker. He remembers that twice hit the "bull's eye" when handed the economic test, without ever visiting classroom lectures, and prepare yourself. • Paul Allen suddenly got a job in the "Honeywell" in Boston, and they, along with Bill continued vigils over programming. At Harvard, Gates earned a reputation as a poker addict and eccentric, obsessed with technology. Steve Ballmer, his friend and current senior vice president of "Microsoft", recalled that during the two years in Gates at Harvard, he never spent time trying to cover up his bed coverlet (Rebello, SW-Es Hey Today has 16 January 1991).
Ballmer also said that Gates was "to some extent, the poker addict (it could all night playing cards) ... We knew him as a crazy guy from Seattle, in the room which was a mess." Harvard was a temporary stop for rapid Gates. Formed in 1975, the "Popyular Electronics" ("Popular Electronics") editorial, dedication of "Em-It-Es" computer "Altair", attracted their attention. Gates and Allen contacted the "Em-Ai Tee-Es "and asked to write a program to" BASIC "for the new amateur computer. working eighteen hours a day in the lab at Harvard, they make a program that Allen drove to Albuquerque. Nineteen Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard and also went to Albuquerque, which took a room at a motel across the street from the "Em-It-es." He wrote the program and found the time to work on the organization of "Microsoft", which is going to build a relationship with "Em-It-es." He and Allen took a room for two, with Gates wrote the program, and Allen served for "Uh-It-es" another job. Gates said he and Allen worked day and night to create these early programs - "BASIC".
Experience in Albuquerque, was very important for their future work with "Apple", "B-I-Am," "Commodore" and other firms. Operating systems by "Microsoft", began in the late 1970s, the absolute leaders of computer technology. Magazine "Byte" wrote that cooperation Gates / Allen - "Uh-It-Es" become a legend computer industry, when the subject will be written the history books.
