Bill Gates Biography essays

Bill Gates Biography essays When you think of Bill Gates what comes to mind? A computer genius, the richest man in the world, a nerd. When I think of Bill he reminds me of Albert Einstein or even Thomas Edison because of what he did for mankind. 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 wasnt making much progress with his psychiatrist so Gatess 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 students. 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 Lake...