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| | [[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee.<ref>https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13927</ref> The plaque was erected a few miles down the road from where [[David Greenglass]] held his famous rendezvous with [[Harry Gold]] in the notorious [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and where [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]].<ref>https://www.albuquerquebedandbreakfasts.com/history.htm</ref> When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]] | | [[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee.<ref>https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/13927</ref> The plaque was erected a few miles down the road from where [[David Greenglass]] held his famous rendezvous with [[Harry Gold]] in the notorious [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and where [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]].<ref>https://www.albuquerquebedandbreakfasts.com/history.htm</ref> When the Cold War ended, Microsoft was in the driver's seat of the post-Cold War era.]] |
| − | Gates interest in computers began at age 13. To avoid the draft, Gates was enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17; he dropped out in his sophomore year when [[Selective Service]] registration was suspended early in April 1975. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories under the name Microsoft in July. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase, where Sandia labs is housed, what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]]. | + | Gates interest in computers began at age 13. Gates enrolled at [[Harvard]] at 17, and dropped out in his sophomore year. |
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| − | Before the applications of [[microprocessor]]s to [[nuclear weapons]] during the 1970s, Sandia used hard logic - transistors or low-level gates on small scale integrated circuits. These provided little flexibility. If a change in functions was required, it was necessary to rebuild the logic boards. The advent of microprocessors added flexibility by accommodating changes simply by changing the [[software]]. Packed with advance microprocessors SANDAC was first used in Sandia's TIGER program in the 1970s,<ref>''A History of Exceptional Service'', Leland Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque , New Mexico, 1997. Limited Edition.</ref> | + | Before the applications of [[microprocessor]]s to [[nuclear weapons]] during the 1970s, computers used hard logic - transistors or low-level gates on small scale integrated circuits. These provided little flexibility. If a change in functions was required, it was necessary to rebuild the logic boards. The advent of microprocessors added flexibility by accommodating changes simply by changing the [[software]]. Packed with advance microprocessors SANDAC was first used in Sandia's TIGER program in the 1970s,<ref>''A History of Exceptional Service'', Leland Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque , New Mexico, 1997. Limited Edition.</ref> |
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| | William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney. Under the [[DARPA]] program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the [[United States Government]] cannot own a patent. Gates father also served as the head of [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKfTMIPMro</ref><ref>http://www.physiciansforlife.org/bill-gates-father-head-of-planned-parenthood-inspired-his-abortion-population-control-views/</ref> | | William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney. Under the [[DARPA]] program, technology developed through public funds is public property. By law, the [[United States Government]] cannot own a patent. Gates father also served as the head of [[Planned Parenthood]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lKfTMIPMro</ref><ref>http://www.physiciansforlife.org/bill-gates-father-head-of-planned-parenthood-inspired-his-abortion-population-control-views/</ref> |