William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1951. Gates was the first born to Mary and Bill Gates senior. Bill was a City attorney and his mother was a schoolteacher. Gates sister Kristi Anne was born in 1953. Throughout grade school, Gates did poorly in penmanship, citizenship, and other subjects he found trivial but got top grades in Science and Math. Toward the end of the elementary years, Gates started to have severe behavioral problems that worried his parents and teachers enough that Gates had to go to a psychiatrist. Gates wasn't making much progress with his psychiatrist so Gates's father believed that his problems could be fixed by going to a new school. So in the seventh grade Gates started to attend Lakeside a very strict, private school.

When Gates was in the eighth grade Lakeside bought a Teletype machine from the "Mothers Club". The machine was an ASR-33 Teletype with paper type connected over a phone line to a GE computer. Mastering the machine would become a contest among the studen

ts. Obtaining computer time would become a goal with his best friend, Paul Allen . Gates and Allen got together with two other people, ric weilan and Kent Evan, and these four people called themselves the Lakeside Programming group . This group found a business named Computer Center Corporation, C-Cubed, and this company would pay the group to look for bugs in the PDP-10 machine they had. Gates spent the next few years teaching himself FORTRAN, LISP, and PDP-10. C-cubed eventually went bankrupt and the group was forced to find another source of computer time. The group found a group in Portland that use the same PDP-10 machine that C-cubed used. Gates asked the company that if Lakeside programming group would write a COBOL payroll program if they could get some free computer time and the company agreed . While the coding of the payroll project a major even occurred. The other three members thought the group was to big and they wanted Gates to leave and Gates's response was "Look, if you ever want me to come back you have to let me be in charge. But this is a dangerous thing because if you put me in charge this time, I'm going to want to be in charge forever after." The group reconsidered and agreed to Gates terms. Other job opportunities came to the group and it became quite profitable. They did scheduling systems and programs for the state road department of Washington.

On January 1,1979 Microsoft and it's sixteen employees moved to Seattle, Washington. Gates believed that it would be easier to recruit new people from there. In 1981 Gates bought SCP-DOS from a Seattle programming company and modified it to MS-DOS. MS-DOS would be shipped out on all the new IBM computers. In 1985 Windows 1.0 was released. This was a milestone product because it allowed users to switch from the MS-DOS way of typing to using a mouse to point and click. It also allowed users to switch between several programs without having to close or quit programs. In 1986 Microsoft came public and went on the stock exchange for twenty-one dollars a share. Gates become an instant millionaire. In 1987 Windows 2.0 was released. This operating system featured support for the VGA graphics standard, and also allowed users to overlap windows, contr

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