This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version

This manga, published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates” (マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語), in KoroKoro Comic, is a fascinating piece of history, and quite amusing to boot. As a piece of history, it harkens back to a time when Bill Gates was the Larry Page or Sergey Brin of his day, a dynamic entrepreneur in charge of an up and coming venture company, a far cry from the monolithic titan of corporate America Microsoft would later become. The entire story is translated below.

I left the format in right to left reading, and the original Japanese scans are available below.

This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version

This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミックEnglish version

As a historical aside, the manga does not use the term “PC” (or pasokon), instead opting for “My Computer”, or maikon.

Great credit goes to the original source for digging a thirty year old magazine out from some forgotten archive and taking the trouble to scan it.

This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック
This manga was published in 1982 as “My Computer God – The Story of Bill Gates”, in KoroKoro Comic マイコンの神さま ビル・ゲイツ物語 別冊コロコロコミック



    15 Comments
    Comment by Panther
    02-07-2008 03:06 # Report

    Bill Gates still is evil. Even if he has made PCs easy to use lol.

     
    Comment by meganeshounen
    02-07-2008 12:20 # Report

    Now THIS definitely proves that the Japanese can make manga out of ANYTHING.

     
    Comment by zonic505
    05-07-2008 12:44 # Report

    That big-toothed kid is Arashi from the anime Game Center Arashi from 1982.

     
    Comment by What
    07-07-2008 11:19 # Report

    There’s another manga in the same vein, about George Soros. Was translated in English, saw it at some Borders in Malaysia. Didn’t have the time to stay though, had to leave and was outta cash, so… I didn’t read all the way to the end :(

    Comment by Artefact
    07-07-2008 16:15 # Report

    The really famous one is of course the Ghosn Nissan manga; business manga aren’t exactly common, but nor are they unheard of.

     
     
    Comment by billywest
    07-07-2008 14:09 # Report

    You should e-mail that to Microsoft in Seattle.

    Comment by Artefact
    07-07-2008 16:13 # Report

    Maybe it will come to their attention naturally. It is certainly very positive to MS, which makes a change I suppose.

     
     
    Comment by haruthebum
    16-10-2008 18:09 # Report

    haha, that’s awesome, although its still not as weird as a manga about extreme bread battles.

    theres another one similar to this one out in canada called edu-manga it stars Edward Einstein, and is about science I’m guessing.

     
    Comment by gau
    27-11-2008 15:05 # Report

    watch “pirates of silicon valley” for more clear view… but this comic is funny and good enough.

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    04-01-2009 05:34 # Report

    Very fun read, thanks for posting

     
    Comment by HCKPro
    07-02-2009 08:03 # Report

    What about Apple?

     
    Comment by zeeohsix
    19-02-2009 17:20 # Report

    i looked it up and came across this:
    “After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school’s computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.”

     
    Comment by xxc
    24-02-2009 13:25 # Report

    this is so boring. Who’d want to read about BILL GATES?? Give me One Piece anyday over this ****.

    Comment by Anonymous
    18-04-2009 06:44 # Report

    Because without Bill Gates you wouldn’t be posting on this site today. In all probability if Gates hadn’t started the whole home computer thing there wouldn’t be PC’s today. Fact: Sinclair, Apple, Apricot, Commodore and others started up home computing AFTER Bill Gates started the ball rolling. So in all fairness give the guy his credit and his due.

    Oh, and before anybody says otherwise, I hate MS and I can’t stand Bill Gates, especially after finding out that one form of his name in ASCII with the letters added together come to 666.

    Antichrist, anybody?

    Comment by Maximatum99
    30-04-2009 03:50 # Report

    Antichrist? Uh, maybe he will make Skynet and bring the rise of machines after some strange bizarre incident regarding a blu-ray disk. A battle against Sony and will lead to Skynet destroying Sony and the world! Nah… that may never happen.

     
     
     



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