Bill gates roadway to his succ
Bill gates roadway to his succA youngish man who looks like a graduate student sits on the door of his unpretentious dormlike room, spooning noodles from a plastic container. His glasses are smudged, his clothes are wrinkled, and his hair is tousled like a boy's. Yet this is an office, not a dorm room. And, while everyone calls the complex of 25 buildings a campus, it is not a college or university. It is the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. And the person is no grad student. He is William H. Gates III chief executive and co-founder of Microsoft. Mr. Gates has changed the way we live through his first computing experience, the roots of his business career, and the birth of Microsoft.
Early on in life, it was apparent that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive spirit that had helped him rise to the top in his chosen profession. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peer's abilities in nearly all subjects, especially math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment. This decision had far reaching effects on Bill Gate's life. For at Lakeside, Bill Gates was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968, the Lakeside prep school decided that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. Computers were still too large and costly for the school to purchase its own. Instead, the school had a fundraiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. However, Lakeside had drastically underestimated the allure this machine would have for a hand full of young students. Bill Gates and a few other Lakeside students immediately became inseparable from the computer. They would stay in the computer room all day and night, writing programs, reading computer literature and anything else they could to learn about computing. Soon Gates and the others started running into problems with the faculty. Their homework was being turned in late, they were skipping classes to be in the computer room and worst of all, they had used up all of the schools computer time in just a few weeks. In the fall of 1968, Computer Center Corporation opened for business in Seattle. It was offering computing time at good rates, and one of the chief programmers working for the corporation had a child attending Lakeside. A deal was struck between Lakeside Prep School and the Computer Center Corporation that allowed the school to continue providing it's students with computer time. Gates and his comrades immediately began exploring the contents of this new machine. It was not long before the young hackers started causing problems. They caused the system to crash several times and broke the computers security system. They even altered the files...
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