https://web.archive.org/web/20001215161400/http://americanhistory.si.edu/csr/comphist/gates.htm
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インタビューアー：David Allison（当時の所属 Division of Computers, Information, & Society, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution)
場所: Microsoft Corporation, Bellevue, Washington
日時:1993年11月30日～12月1日
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インタビュー内容
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8080の重要性を強調
- Family Background
- School Experiences
- Importance of Extra Curricular Activities
- Experiences with the PDP-10
- Creating Traf-O-Data
- Using an 8008 Processor
- Working for TRW
- Importance of the Microprocessor
As early as 1971, Paul and I had talked about the microprocessor. And it was really his insight that because of semi-conductor improvements, things would just keep getting better. I said to him, “Oh, exponential phenomena is pretty rare, pretty dramatic. Are you serious about this? Because this means, in effect, we can think of computing as free.” It is a gross exaggeration, but it is probably the easiest way to understand what it means to cut cost like that. And Paul was quite convinced of that. So I would sort of say to Paul, “Well, you know what that means?” And he’d say, “Yeah, that is what it means.” It is kind of fun to know this, and think, gosh, how are companies going to react, how are they going to respond to something that phenomenal? The early days were very slow moving, though. By the time I went to Harvard, all there was was the 8008 chip. And the 8080 was just coming out, which was the first good general purpose microprocessor chip that Intel was coming out with.
- College Plans
- Discovery of Altair
- Writing an Altair Basic
- Testing the Basic
- Joining the PC Revolution
- Expanding Customers Beyond MITS
- Microsoft as a Separate Company
- Running Basic on an Altair
- The IMSAI Computer
- The People who formed Microsoft
- Early Microsoft Culture
- Basic for Other Early PC’s
- What Distinguished Microsoft Basic
- Running Microsoft Multiplan
- Defining Microsoft Corporate Strategy
- Move to the Business Market
- Keeping up with the Industry
- Growth of Microsoft
- Character of People Recruited
- The Move to Seattle
- The ‘Microsoft Way’
- Early Failures–and Lessons
- Relations with Paul Allen and Steve Ballmer
- Mazuhiko Nishi
- Vision for Spread of Personal Computers
- Keeping up with the Comptetition
- The TRS-80 Model 100
- End of First Phase of PC History
- The Altair Basic Paper Tape
- Holding the Beginning of Microsoft in his Hands
- Advent of the IBM-PC
- IBM-PC Design and Development Issues
- Switch from CP/M to DOS
- Features of Microsoft DOS
- Development of Microsoft Word
- Microsoft and the Mouse
- IBM-PC Compatible Explosion
- Relationship Between Microsoft and Apple
- Builing the Corporate Campus
- Going Public
- Microsoft’s Growth
- A Changing Culture
- The Business of the AT
- Continuing Business Expansion
- Challenges of the Windows Interface
- Moving to the 386
- Battle Between OS/2 and Windows
- Growing Windows
- Responding to Networks
- Pushing Towards Multimedia
- Directions of Windows NT
- Workgroup Computing
- Computers and Societal Transformation
- The Future of Computing
- Scary Developments
- New Corporate Branches
- Closing Thoughts
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