Bill Gates. Biography and activities

• Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978.
• Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. His father was an attorney and his mother was a schoolteacher. He attended public elementary school, but went to a private high school. During his high school years, he learned to program computers at the age of 13. It was apparent to his teachers that he had a lot of potential in academics since he excelled in math and science.
• The first computer he used was a DEC PDP-10 that was owned by General Electric. His high school paid General Electric for time that the students could use to program the computer. Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen spent many hours at the computer, eventually causing their grades to suffer from skipped classes and late homework. When they were given a new system to work with, they hacked into the system to make it so that the computer did not record the time that they spent on it, causing them to be banned from it for weeks.
• In 1968, he formed a group called the Lakeside Programmers Group with the intent of applying their learned computer skills to the real world. The local Computer Center Corporation hired them to find bugs in their system's software and gave them unlimited computer usage as a result.
• After Computer Center Corporation went out of business in 1970, the group began working on computers at the University of Washington in their free time. They soon found work at Information Sciences Inc., where they were hired to develop payroll software. Later that year, Bill Gates and Paul Allen started a...

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