What happened at the Homebrew Computer Club 50 years ago: Apple was born, and a revolution began
In the club's garage in Menlo Park, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak showed off the first Apple computer. Bill Gates was ...
Missing Link: Homebrew Computer Club, nucleus of the digital revolution
In March 1975, a few technology tinkerers meet in a garage in Silicon Valley and found a computer club. Apple would not have ...
"An Ego Boost": Before Microsoft, Bill Gates Turned Down Multiple Tech Job Offers
Bill Gates acknowledges that the job offers from companies like Honeywell and General Electric were a significant "ego boost.
Bill Gates Spent A Year Trying To Avoid Dropping Out—Here's Why He Couldn't Wait Any Longer
The Microsoft co-founder described his intense struggle with the decision, telling CNBC that he even tried convincing early programmer Ric Weiland to “take charge of things” so he could finish his ...
Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but one-time Harvard dropout Bill Gates wouldn’t advise skipping school
Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but Bill Gates still wouldn’t advise dropping out of college — here’s why. It may be surprising to learn t ...
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Bill Gates looks to his Seattle past, pushes Trump for a better future
Advertising Not long after, Allen convinced Gates that the future was in Albuquerque, N.M. Allen bought a January 1975 copy of Popular Electronics magazine with an Altair 8800 microcomputer on the ...
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‘It’s happening without us’: Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but Bill Gates still wouldn’t advise dropping out of college — here’s why
He was spurred to drop out of Harvard and pursue his dream when he saw an issue of Popular Electronics featuring the first commercially successful personal computer in the U.S. — the Altair 8800.
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Bill Gates regretted leaving Harvard: I spent Microsoft's first year trying to get a friend to ‘take charge,' so I could return
The magazine's cover featured the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models," a computer made by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) called the Altair 8800.