Bill Gates
William Henry Gates the III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28, 1955 He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary Gates. When William Henry Gates was still a young boy the computer industry was still trying to spread its wings and fly. ... They sent Bill whose nickname was Trey because of the III to a well-known private school called Lakeside. Bill first laid a hand on a computer in 1968 while in junior high school. At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking a computer studies class. The following year, Gates wrote his first computer program, at a time when computers were still room-sized machines run by scientists. ... "I surreptitiously added a few instructions and found myself nearly the only guy in a class full of girls" says Gates. Still in high school, Gates and Allen founded a company called Traf-O-Data which analyzed city traffic data. ... As a student Gates was a wonder. ... One day in December 1974, Allen, who was working at Honeywell outside of Boston, showed Gates a Popular Mechanics cover featuring the Altair 8800, a $397 computer from M. ... Gates and Allen contacted the head of M.