Personal computers,or PCs,are an important part of our everyday lives .many people cannot imagine life most important people in making these machines work is Bill Gates .

Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Washington State .He grew up in a rich family .His parents sent him to private school .there he met his business partner ,Paul Allen .When they were in the eighth grade,they were writing programs for business computers and making money.

In 1973,Gates was accepted at Harvard University .His parents were happy .They thought he would get over his obsession with computers and become a lawer like his father .Two years later ,Gates dropped out of Harvard to work on a computer program with his friend Allen .They worked eighteen hours a day in a dormitory room at Harvard .They were personal computers .In 1975,they created a company called Microsoft to sell their product.

Allen became ill with cancer and left Micrlsoft in 1983,He recovered a few years later and started his own company .By1990,at the age of thirty-four,Gates was the youndest billionnaire in the histroy of more than ten years ,he had a dream and the will to succeed .By 1997,he was the richest man in the United States
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