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By Alex Halverson, The Seattle Instances
Printed: April 6, 2025, 6:05am
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Paul Allen, 29, left, and Invoice Gates, 26, turned a pivotal personal-computing concept right into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. (Barry Wong/The Seattle Instances, 1982/TNS)
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Fifty years in the past, two children from Seattle flipped the tech business on its head.
Whereas all the massive brains in private computing had been targeted on machines — “microcomputer” {hardware} — Invoice Gates and Paul Allen had been serious about the expertise that made the machines go: software program. That concept, planted by Allen at Gates’ Boston-area house, turned the opening verse of Microsoft’s epic.
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