ABSTRACT
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on 28 October 1955. He was educated at Lakeside School in Seattle, where he shone at science and particularly maths, and reportedly was tested as having an IQ of between 160 and 170. He became interested in computers while at school, and befriended another young computer enthusiast, fellow pupil Paul Allen. While still in their teens, Gates and Allen set up their first computer company, Traf-O-Data. Computers in the early 1970s were still relatively primitive affairs, large and slow, and used primarily to conduct numerical analysis. Gates and Allen, however, were among those who believed that computers were the technology of the future.
