Anthony Chavez
I think bill gates is an important person because he made a big difference in home technology. Bill gates is the richest man in the world and why? Because he studied as hard as he could and went to college. When he was thirteen he wrote his first software program. Which let him and his friends play tic tac toe. When bill gates was going to Harvard college his friend Paul Allen showed him the newest electronic hardware system in a popular electronics magazine. A man named ed Roberts made the first personal computer in Alburquerque new Mexico it was the Altair 8800 Bill and Allen had been waiting for this moment their entire lives and wanted to be a part of it.
They made anew computer language they hoped the Altair could understand. Allen went to New Mexico to see if their hard work paid off. Bill was worried that the company MITS would not take them seriously but they were actually amazed and gave them their own Altair 8800.when gates was nineteen he dropped out of Harvard and along with Allen founded Microsoft. They also hired some other people who helped perfect their binary system and get it out on the market. After a year or two of this language they weren’t making much profit. They felt that Microsoft needed a change. So gates and Allen moved to Seattle in 1980 and teamed up with a Harvard roomate named Steve Ballmer.
In august of 1980 the three men went to IBM’s corporate office in Miami to offer them a disk operating