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Bill Gates Biography

Early Years

William Henry Gates III (Bill) was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington. Bill was the second of three children in an upper-middle class family. He enjoyed playing games with the family and was very competitive. He also loved to read. Bill became bored in public school so his family sent him to Lakeside School, a private school, where he excelled in math and science and did well in drama and English.

Programming at Age 13

Gates became interested in computer programming when he was 13, during the era of giant mainframe computers. His school held a fund-raiser to purchase a teletype terminal so students could use computer time that was donated by General Electric. Using this time, Gates wrote a tic-tac-toe program using BASIC, one of the first computer languages. Later he created a computer version of Risk, a board game he liked in which the goal is world domination. At Lakeside, Bill met Paul Allen, who shared his interest in computers. Gates and Allen and two other students hacked into a computer belonging to Computer Center Corporat

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Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates lll on October 28, 1995, in Seattle, Washington. Gates began to show an interets in computer programming at the age of 13 at the Lakeside School. He pursed his own with his friend and business partner Paul Allen, Gates found himself at the right place at the right time. Through technological innovation business tactics, he built the world's largest software business, Microsoft. In the process, Gates became one the richest men ini the world.

It was at Lakeside School where Bill met Paul Allen, who was two years his senior. The two became fast friend, bonding on their sommon enthusiasm over computers, even though they were very different. Allen was more reserved and shy. Bill was feisty and at time combative. They both spent much of their free time together working on programs. Occasionally, they disagreed and would clash over who was right or who should run the computer lab. On one occasion, their argument escalated to the point where Allen benned Gates from the computer lab. On another occasion, Gates and Allen had their school computer pri

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