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April 4, 1975: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form a Little Partnership

1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world’s richest people.

Gates and Allen had been buddies and fellow Basic programmers at Lakeside School in Seattle. Allen graduated before Gates and enrolled at the University of Washington. They built a computer based on an Intel 8008 chip and used it to analyze traffic data for the Washington state highway department, doing business as Traf-O-Data.

By Randy Alfred

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/dayintech_0404

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