Sunday, February 15, 2015

Not Many People Realized Bill Gates's First Computing Experience Was Use of TTY

After seeing the photo of young Bill Gates smiled with the use of  modern model of TTY of the Deaf @ the university office where he hung out around. That explained how Gates got himself into the world of computing after real fascination how the electronic data transmitted over telephone wires.

Here is the proof of Bill Gates' acquiantance with the TTY machine is on the end of Wiki enclosure -

htthttp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33p://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/fall09/os/c01/. ( photo of Bill Gates in awe of TTY machine). http://www.cs.rpi.edu/academics/courses/fall09/os/c01/


The presence of Deaf people surely contributed to the innovations and best of humanity within the history of humankind like Thomas Edison's improvement of electric light bulb and movie camera and the cloverleaf design of modern highways, etc.

ASLize yours,
Robert  L. Mason
RLMDEAF