"Why Cars Are Better Than Horses" Clip from Interview with Bill Gates, 2009
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Artifact Overview
Obsessively dedicated to computing and software since his student days, Bill Gates became galvanized by the advent of an early personal computer, the Altair, which appeared in 1975. His passion for seeing what the computer could do was so great, in fact, that he took a leave of absence from Harvard and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, home of MITS, the Altair's parent company, to write code for it. Capitalizing on this initial success, Gates and his team went on to write the programs in BASIC for the IBM PC that proved instrumental in launching the personal computing revolution.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Film clip
Date Made
2009
Subject Date
2009
Creators
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2009.155.1.1
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Bill Gates.
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