What happened at the Homebrew Computer Club 50 years ago: Apple was born, and a revolution began
In the club's garage in Menlo Park, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak showed off the first Apple computer. Bill Gates was ...
Missing Link: Homebrew Computer Club, nucleus of the digital revolution
In March 1975, a few technology tinkerers meet in a garage in Silicon Valley and found a computer club. Apple would not have ...
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Bill Gates Spent A Year Trying To Avoid Dropping Out—Here's Why He Couldn't Wait Any Longer
The urgency began in 1974 when Gates’ high school friend and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen showed him a Popular Electronics magazine featuring the Altair 8800, described as the “world’s ...
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"Had To Give In To The Inevitable": Bill Gates Says He Regrets Quitting Harvard
The magazine featured a cover story about the Altair 8800, a computer kit that had the potential to revolutionise the industry. At the time, Mr Gates and Mr Allen that if they could create a ...
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‘It’s happening without us’: Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but Bill Gates still wouldn’t advise dropping out of college — here’s why
He was spurred to drop out of Harvard and pursue his dream when he saw an issue of Popular Electronics featuring the first commercially successful personal computer in the U.S. — the Altair 8800.
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Bill Gates says he regretted leaving Harvard to lead Microsoft as its first CEO
called the Altair 8800. At the time, both Allen and Gates believed that if they could create a software for the computers, they could be at the forefront of a new industry. They also knew that if ...
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Microsoft is worth $3 trillion, but one-time Harvard dropout Bill Gates wouldn’t advise skipping school
He was spurred to drop out of Harvard and pursue his dream when he saw an issue of Popular Electronics featuring the first commercially successful personal computer in the U.S. — the Altair 8800.
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In the era of the tech bro, Bill Gates’ memoir is refreshingly human
Of all events, the invention of the first microcomputer, the Altair 8800, a kit soldered together at home, looms largest. Its immense success was limited by the laborious process of programming.