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The must-read summary of James Wallace and Jim Erickson's book: "Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire".
This complete summary of the ideas from James Wallace and Jim Eriskon's book "Hard Drive" tells the story of America's youngest millionaire and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates. In their book, the authors have interviewed childhood friends, employees and business rivals to present this compelling story behind the rise of this genius who transformed the computer industry. By reading this summary, you will understand how one man took his passion for computing and transformed it into a multi-million dollar world-class company.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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Book Presentation: Hard Drive by James Wallace & Jim Erickson
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Summary of Hard Drive (James Wallace & Jim Erickson)
1. Lakeside High School
2. Traf-O-Data and Harvard University
3. The Altair 8080 and MITS
4. Microsoft BASIC
5. Growing Pains
6. The Industry Standard
7. Making Progress
8. MS-DOS and the IBM Personal Computer
9. Growing From Strength to Strength
10. Windows
11. Going Public
12. The Fruits of Success
Book Presentation: Hard Drive by James Wallace & Jim Erickson
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This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
Summary of Hard Drive (James Wallace & Jim Erickson)
1. Lakeside High School
William Henry Gates II was born on 28 October 1955.
His father, William Gates Jr., served in the Second World War after which he studied law at the University of Washington. He later became a partner in an established legal firm Shidler, McBroom, Gates and Lucas based in Seattle, Washington. His mother, Mary Maxwell, also graduated from the University of Washington before settling down to raise a family.
In describing her son, Mary Gates later remarked that he has pretty much done whatever he felt like doing since the age of eight. This also held true for most of the friends Bill Gates made in school, who always describe him as being very competitive and persistent.
While his father was busy building his legal practice, Bill Gates’ mother was equally hard working and ambitious for her three children. (Bill Gates has two sisters). Mary Gates worked hard at cultivating the right social contacts and organizing numerous activities for the family’s social calendar.
As a student, Bill Gates excelled at mathematics. In fact, most of his early teachers considered he would end up as a mathematician or college professor. At age 11, Gates’ parents enrolled him in Seattle’s most exclusive school, Lakeside. There he mixed with the elite sons of the rich and powerful, including the McCaw brothers who would later build a billion-dollar cellular phone company.
In 1968, the school decided to expose its students to the new and exciting world of computers. A group of mothers held a rummage sale and raised $3,000 to cover the cost of leasing computer time on a Digital Equipment mini-computer owned by General Electric. A teletype computer terminal was set up at the school and students could communicate with the mini-computer using the telephone lines.
Almost immediately, a group of hard core computer enthusiasts began hogging the Lakeside School’s terminal. This group, including Bill Gates and Paul Allen who was about two years older, began reading everything they could about computers. They also started writing programs to play tic-tack-toe, lunar lander and monopoly. Within the space of a few weeks, the $3,000 raised by the Mothers Club was used up.
Paul Allen’s father was Associate Director of Libraries for the University of Washington. He had passed on a love of reading to his son, who read everything he could lay his hands on about science and physics. Allen and Gates would spend many hours together at school working on math and physics problems. They both shared a passion about the future of computers.
Allen and Gates soon formed the Lakeside Programmers Group along with two of their friends. The new group was dedicated to finding ways to make money using computers in the real world.
Their first “real world” problem, however, was that they had already used up all the computer time which the school could afford at that stage. This was further compounded by the fact Lakeside also arranged access to a second mini-computer – another Digital machine owned by Computer Centre Corporation.
While exploring the new computer, Gates and some other students managed to obtain access to the company’s accounting files. They found their personal accounts and substantially reduced the amount of time the computer showed they had used. Their victory was short lived however as they were soon discovered.
To make matters worse, Gates also seemed to have a knack for making the mini-computer crash. Several times, he managed to make the system stop operating while a number of other paying customers were also on line.
