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==History and life==
==History and life==
[[File:NMALBmicrosoft pike2.jpg|right|300px|thumb|A monument stands where Bill Gates obtained the MS-DOS program from a Sandia Lab employee. The monument stands about 5 miles from where [[David Greenglass]] passed off the proximity fuse to [[Harry Gold]] in the famous [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]]. 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. The monument stands about 5 miles from where [[David Greenglass]] passed off the proximity fuse to [[Harry Gold]] in the famous [[Julius Rosenberg|Rosenberg case]] and [[Lona Cohen]] received atomic espionage information from her [[KGB]] contacts at [[Los Alamos]] some 30 years earlier, unofficially kicking off the [[Cold War]]. 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]]; he dropped out in his sophomore year when the draft ended. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories. There he purchased from a government employee on the base what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].
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 the draft ended. He moved to [[Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]] and set up a storefront outside the gate of Sandia National Laboratories. There he purchased from a government employee on Kirtland airbase where Sandia labs is headquarterd what he later patented as [[MS-DOS]].
William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney.
William Gates, Sr., Bill's father, was a patent attorney.