More history about BillGates

William Gates the son of a prominent Seattle, Washington lawyer, was an underachieving math whiz in school.

He was first exposed to digital computers while in the seventh grade and worked on various computer projects for the next several years. While in high school, Bill and a friend, Paul Allen, formed a company called Traf-Data, which used the Intel 8008 microprocessor to help control traffic patterns in Seattle. Gates eventually sold this system to the city for $20,000 when he was only fifteen years old.
He dropped out of high school for one year to work for TRW in computing, earning $30,000. In 1974 Bill was attending Harvard University when Allen spotted an advertisement for a $350 assemble-at-home computer called the Altair 8800, manufactured by MITS, a company headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Bill and Allen worked nonstop for six weeks to devise a simple version of BASIC, a programming language, for the Altair.
They demonstrated their finished product to the company's engineers with great success, and the following year, Bill and Allen founded Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft had entered the personal computer (PC) industry at an opportune time.The Apple Computer Corporation had introduced its Apple II personal computer with much success. International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) decided to enter the market but needed software designed for specific tasks and an operating system that permitted hardware to interpret the software.
In 1980 Microsoft won a contract with IBM to operate personal computers using Microsoft's system, commonly known as MS-DOS. By 1983 the IBM PC had become the industry
standard and MS-DOS was its operating system. In 1995, Microsoft introduced Windows 95 which again revolutionized the PC market, and became an industry standard.