Just after 9:pm, October 28, 1955, William Henry Gates III was born. He was born into a family that was involved in politics, community service, and business. His father, William H. Gates II, had been a mayor and a state legislator and his grandfather was vice president of a national bank. His father is a prominent Seattle attorney and his mother, Mary Gates who is deceased, was regent at the University of Washington, chairwoman of United Way International, and a schoolteacher. So it is apparent where Gates gets his ambition, competitive spirit, and his intelligence.
             Gates attended a public elementary where he excelled in all his classes, especially math and science. He was enrolled into Lakeside, which is a private school known for it's intense academic atmosphere. This is also where computers were first introduced to him and sparked his interest. At age 13, Gates began programming computers.
             Lakeside decided to acquaint its students with the world of computers, in the spring of 1968. At that time computers were too big and expensive for the school to buy. Therefore, the school raised money to buy computer time on a General Electric owned DEC PDP-10. The money raised was enough to buy computer time into the next school year.
             Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and a few other Lakeside students, many of whom were the first hired as programmers at Microsoft, became infatuated with the computer. They would be in the computer lab day in and day out reading computer literature, creating programs, and learning anything and everything they can about computers. Soon they began to have problems with their teachers. Their obsession with computers caused them to turn in homework late and skip classes to go to the computer lab. Within a few weeks' time, they had depleted all the school's computer time.
             Computer Center Corporation opened in Seattle, during the spring of 1968, offering good rates. Computer Center Corporation struck a...