In March 1975, a few technology tinkerers meet in a garage in Silicon Valley and found a computer club. Apple would not have ...

CAD for personal computers first emerged in the late 1970s. The first microcomputer (as they were then called) was 1975’s ...

In the club's garage in Menlo Park, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak showed off the first Apple computer. Bill Gates was ...

Bill Gates acknowledges that the job offers from companies like Honeywell and General Electric were a significant "ego boost.

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 ...

Gates had a world-changing idea and the right timing. But even after co-founding Microsoft with Allen, he still hoped to return to Harvard to finish his degree. Most U.S. college students don’t have a ...

Bill Gates attributes Microsoft's success to sneaking out in the wee hours of the night to perfect his coding skills, ditching Harvard after three semesters, and laissez-faire treatment from ...

It would only be a few months later when Allen burst into Gates' Harvard dorm room carrying a copy of Popular Electronics that featured "the world's first minicomputer," an Altair 8800 ...

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.

We could sit and talk late into the night about very interesting things," he told CNBC Make It. The Turning Point: Altair 8800 However, circumstances forced Gates to make a pivotal decision. The ...