Little-known facts about Bill Gates
Bill Gates is the richest man in the world, he is the founder of the world’s largest software company Microsoft, these are the facts that very few people may not actually know. However, there’s more to the man who is said to have led the third wave of computing than this.
Like, Gates is a college dropout, he scored an almost 95% in his SAT, and much more. Read on for some little-known facts about the tech czar.
1. Sold first computer programme at 17
Born on October 28, 1955 to lawyer father and teacher mother in Seattle, Bill Gates got initiated into the computing world right in his childhood.
At the age of 13, while studying at private Lakeside School, Gates discovered his interest in software and started writing his own computer programmes.
According to some reports, Bill Gates sold his first computer program at the age of 17, a time-tabling system for his high school for $4,200.
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2. Banned by Computer Center Corporation
Interestingly, Gates and three other high school students were banned from computer usage by Seattle-based CCC (Computer Center Corporation) after they were caught exploiting its operating system bugs to steal computer time.
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3. SAT score
According to reports, Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test). The top score for the test then was 1600. He then got enrolled at Harvard College in 1973. Prior to the mid-1990s, SAT score of 1590 corresponded roughly to an IQ of 170.
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4. A college dropout
Few people know that Gates is actually a Harvard university dropout. Gates who scored 1590 on his SAT test out of 1600 got admission in Harvard university in the year 1973, after completing his high school.
At Harvard University, Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen worked on a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer — MITS Altair. Two years later in 1975, he decided to opt out of college to start Microsoft, what eventually went on to become the world’s largest software company.
However, in 2007 Bill Gates finally got a degree from Harvard, when the university conferred him with a honorary degree. At Harvard, Gates met Steve Ballmer who joined Microsoft in 1980. CEO Ballmer was Microsoft’s 24th employee.
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5. Gates starts Micro-soft, not Microsoft!
In 1975, Gates started Microsoft with friend Paul Allen from a rented accommodation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1977, Gates and Allen officially registered a partnership, and Micro-soft became Microsoft.
The biggest breakthrough came in 1980 when Microsoft won a contract from IBM to provide operating system MS-DOS for IBM’s new personal computers.