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o their business, because no one would want a communications machine that did not leave a written record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telep
sixteen, he wrote a program thag: made it easier for cities to collect traffic statistics. That same year, he and Allen started a A, company called Traf-o-Data. In the Lakeside yearbook for 1973, Gates' senior year, there i" " is a picture of Gates in the computer room with a stocking cap pulled over his he
their business, because =no one would want a communications machine that did not leave a written =record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telep
was sixteen, he wrote a program that made it easier for cities to collect traffic statistics. That same year, he and Allen started a company called Traf-o-Data. In the Lakeside yearbook for 1973, Gates' senior year, there is a picture =of Gates in the computer room with a stocking cap pulled over his head =
their business, because =no one would want a communications machine that did not leave a written =record of the conversation, as telegrams did. When William Orton, the president of Western Union, which was the Microsoft of its day, was offered the opportunity to buy Alexander Graham Bell's patent on the telep
was sixteen, he wrote a program that made it easier for cities to collect traffic statistics. That same year, he and Allen started a company called Traf-o-Data. In the Lakeside yearbook for 1973, Gates' senior year, there is a picture =of Gates in the computer room with a stocking cap pulled over his head =
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