Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 and grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. . Science and maths were his two favourite subjects at school. And he dreamed of being a scientist.
At that time, a computer was a very large machine. Once he was interested in a very old computer. He and some of his friends spent as much time as possible on computers. In the end, they worked out a software programme.
In 1973, Bill went to Harvard University. In 1975, Bill and his partners developed a software programme called BASIC. This was not the first programme ever created, but its inventors were the first to decide, that people who wanted to use it should pay for it. . Then Bill left Harvard to work for Microsoft, a company he started in 1975 with his boyhood friend Paul Allen. They thought the computer would come into every office and every home soon. .They improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers. His achievements benefited people a lot.
| A. Bill sold it for 4,200 dollars when he was only 17 B. He was a very bright boy C. So they began developing software for personal computers D. Bill first started to play on computers at the age of 13 E. BASIC was a success |
