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 ...
Bill Gates Spent A Year Trying To Avoid Dropping Out—Here's Why He Couldn't Wait Any Longer
The Microsoft co-founder described his intense struggle with the decision, telling CNBC that he even tried convincing early programmer Ric Weiland to “take charge of things” so he could finish his ...
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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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‘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 regretted leaving Harvard: I spent Microsoft's first year trying to get a friend to ‘take charge,' so I could return
The magazine's cover featured the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models," a computer made by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) called the Altair 8800.
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Bill Gates regretted leaving Harvard: I spent Microsoft's first year trying to get a friend to ‘take charge,' so I could return
called the Altair 8800. Quickly, Allen and Gates believed they could be at the forefront of a new industry: creating software for the computers that'd eventually end up in nearly every American ...