Pay attention to the $15K salary he wants- that's about $75K in today's money. Not much has changed,even though companies nowadays make many tons more money from the dev work...
I don't know how much value there is in this kind of stuff, but I am an absolute sucker for this kind of history. Standard, utilitarian, even boring documents that miraculously survived all this time. Granted it's from one of the most famous programmers ever, but it's just so fascinating. Thanks for sharing.
I hadn't heard of one of the programming languages mentioned: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSS" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JOSS</a>. Interesting.
Pretty nostalgic seeing a pre MS giant resume from Gates.<p>Also .. look at how simple a resume is. Raw ascii text, few paragraphs .. done.<p>#dubugging
The Seattle address listed in the upper left hand corner of his resume is in one of the nicest spots in one of the nicest neighborhoods in Seattle. Sweeping views of Lake Washington. From that house he could see the site where he lives now in Medina.
Crazy to look back & realize it used to be normal to not just note on your resume if you're married or not, but also your height & weight.
Bill's address back then:<p>5161 NE 41st St
Seattle, Washington 98015<p><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6579855,-122.2705519,3a,75y,180.99h,78.99t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZhqHdwgQBWtie6_Ptthl7A!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/maps/@47.6579855,-122.2705519,3a,75y,...</a>
I'm amused that such a resume would be binned by many HR departments.<p>That is some HR depatments, are so bad at their job, that they will literally lose your company the chance to get a Bill-gates-caliber dev.<p>I mean obviously if he gets to the technical interview, an engineer can see that he is competent. But they question is would such a resume get past HR?