operating system for your pc, and we'll get a cut of every machine you sell, and in addition, he made sure it wasn't an exclusive license, that he was going to be able to sell the software to ibm, but he was also going to be able to sell the same software to other people, because gates intuited that there would be people that would build knockoffs of ibm in the pc clones. >> it was a genius move who was still in his early 20s. and you've got these guys at ibm in blue shirts and dark ties looking at this company microsoft and saying, who cares? software, who cares about software. we build these big machines. >> ibm did not realize it was essentially handing all this power to this little nerd. >> if you had stayed at harvard a few more years, would this computer revolution have passed you by? >> perhaps. things moved quickly in the industry. it was an urgency to get out there and be the first one to put a basic on the micro computer that caused me to drop out. >> if you don't have one, you