Bill Hill - What were the influences in your life?

Posted By: The Channel 9 Team | Apr 19th, 2004 @ 11:43 AM | 21,106 Views | 17 Comments
Bill Hill, head of the typography department here, talks about the influences his parents played in his life. What influenced you to get involved in computers/technology?
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#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 12:40 PM
michaeltal
michaeltal
Another great video with a great microsoft employee!!!

Thanks! Smiley

Michael
#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 1:49 PM
Akaina
Akaina
C9 is cool, but /. has better karma.

My friend's dad used to come over and teach me how to manage my config.sys when I was 10, back when we were trying to free up our conventional memory so I could load the Doom1 demo. That was before memmaker.

You used to have do a softboot and keep your resident memory, then upon the next boot, you would have the resources to make the game work Smiley

Also, the Nintendo Game Genie kept me fascinated with creating my own game-codes and figuring out what variables were.

I'de say videogames were 99.9% of the motivation for learning. I learned alot more then what I originally intended, and luckily it's been the ride of a lifetime.

#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 2:07 PM
Stack Of Toast
Stack Of Toast
There were build errors??

I have known a few fascinating people like Bill in my life and they always leave you wanting to know more, so more Bill Hill please!!!

I was always interested in space and technology, I got interested in computers when I convinced my parents to buy me a Commodore 64 when I was 12 so I could play games. I ended up programming with it and the rest is history.

#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 4:05 PM
mrservices
mrservices
POS Reseller
Hello All, been on the site for awhile and this is my first post!

Bill Hill and the rest of Channel 9 gang, Microsoft gang and users are inspiring!

This is simply amazing that we are able to communicate in this fashion!

I find myself spending more and more time on here and learning more and more!

Keep up the good work and yes more Bill Hill videos please!

Roger
#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 4:09 PM
vanlandw
vanlandw
wow...that is pretty amazing reading over 10 books a week.  I'm lucky to be able to read three to four a year!
#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 4:13 PM
Naveen
Naveen
we all start somewhere...
Thank you for that, it was brilliant and inspiring. Here's hoping for more of that get to know each other content, and you guys and girls at MS, you're really lucky to be working around such people!

Thanks again, i'd say it another time if it didnt seem strange in, err, almost print Smiley

Naveen

#Apr 19th, 2004 @ 4:13 PM
Naveen
Naveen
we all start somewhere...
[mistaken reply to myself], please move on.

#Apr 20th, 2004 @ 1:04 AM
Skriker V1.0
Skriker V1.0
Need more money...

Great to here all that bill, I recently moved to Paisley, which is just outside Glasgow, When I was younger I used to live in a horrible scheme called Drumchapel which is on the outskirts of Glasgow, at school no one was really interested in learning, I had to isolate my self from everyone else, when I was 16 and decided to go to College it was really hard, my dad was one of the only great influences then, but here I am today, a qualified engineer Smiley when was the last time you were back in Glasgow?

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