
Family tree of Bill GATES
Philanthropist, Industrialist, Businessman
Born William Henry III GATES
American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, and former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft
Born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington, USA , United States (65 years)
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At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school. When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummage sale to buy a Teletype Model 33 ASR terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric (GE) computer for the school's students. Gates took an interest in programming the GE system in BASIC, and was excused from math classes to pursue his interest. He wrote his first computer program on this machine: an implementation of tic-tac-toe that allowed users to play games against the computer. Gates was fascinated by the machine and how it would always execute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he said, "There was just something neat about the machine."
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