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| Thursday, September 2, 2010 |
| Bill Gates Bio
His life before before |

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington in October 28, 1955, to William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary Maxwell Gates, ofEnglish, German, and Scottish-Irish descent. His family was upper middle class; his father was a prominent lawyer, his mother served on the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and theUnited Way, and her father, J. W. Maxwell, was a national bank president. Gates has one elder sister, Kristi and one younger sister, Libby. He was the fourth of his name in his family, but was known asWilliam Gates III or "Trey" because his father had dropped his own "III" suffix.[11] Early on in his life, Gates' parents had a law career in mind for him.
At 13 he enrolled in the LakesideSchool, 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 an ASR-33 teletype terminal and a block ofcomputer 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. Hewrote 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 alwaysexecute software code perfectly. When he reflected back on that moment, he commented on it and said, "There was just something neat about the machine." After the Mothers Club donation was exhausted, heand other students sought time on systems including DEC PDP minicomputers. One of these systems was a PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates,Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time.
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