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From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Sun May 31 09:39:22 1998

At 12:56 AM 5/31/98 -0500, Doug Yowza wrote:
>>
>> Not to mention some undoubtedly fascinating volumes on traffic
>> signals.
>
>I actually felt a little guilty about that. Supposedly, that's how
>Microsoft got its start, right?

I think Gates & Allen's first "company" was "Traf-o-data", run on
someone else's PDP equipment. I recall it was analyzing traffic
data. I only remember because about the same time, I was doing
nearly the same thing as my Eagle Scout project, summarizing
traffic and accident data for a city. Gates and Foust, the
ominous parallels, oh yeah. :-)

- John
Received on Sun May 31 1998 - 09:39:22 BST