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William H. Gates terce Biographical EssayUploaded by surfchick (2074) on Jan 5, 2005      William H. Gates III (Bill Gates) BiographyOn October 28, 1955 William H. Gates III (nicknamed "trey") was born in Seattle. His father was a lawyer (William H. Gates II) and his mother was a schoolteacher. He excessively had two older sisters who were in high school when Bill was born. Bill attended a public elementary school before he move to a private school in North Seattle named lakeside. Lakesides strong academics enabled Bill to actively get involved with computers (which were the love of his life next to baseball) and use his topnotch intellect. This was the beginning of a long and successful career in computers. Bill combined his intellect and visions of technology along with his active participation in whitethorn charities to make our world a better place.He was born with a long family history of business, politics and community services. His grand fath er was the vice prexy of a national bank, and his father was a prominent lawyer. Early in life it was obvious that Bill Gates inherited the ambition, intelligence and competitive spirit up that helped the rest of his family rise to the top in their chosen professions. In elementary school he quickly surpassed all of his peers abilities in nearly all subjects, curiously in math and science. His parents recognized his intelligence and decided to enroll him in Lakeside, a private school known for its intense academic environment.It was at Lakeside that he was first introduced to computers. In the spring of 1968 the Lakeside Prep School concluded that it should acquaint the student body with the world of computers. They were still too banging and costly for the school to purchase its own, so instead they had a fund raiser and bought computer time on a DEC PDP-10 owned by General Electric. A few thousand dollars were raised which the school figured would buy more than enough time to last into the next school year. entirely they had drastically underestimated the amount of students that would be addicted to this machine.With in a week all of the schools computer time had been used up. Bill and his friends went to places that made computers and finally represent a company that would let them use their computers for free, but they had to record all the times that the computers crashed and exactly what happened so they could fix it.