At 02:40 AM 12/1/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>In a message dated 11/30/01 10:55:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>celt_at_chisp.net writes:
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>>Traf-O-Data automatic traffic measuring device - Microsoft's first piece
>>of hardware
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>I would like to know more about this? What, When, Why, What happened to it?
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>Paxton
>Astoria, OR
From "Fire in the Valley, " page 31,32.
Bill Gates got hold of an 8008, and with Paul Allen and Paul
Gilbert, constructed a machine to generate traffic flow statistics using
data collected by a sensor installed in a rubber tube strung across a
highway. Software written by Allen and Gates. It took a year to get it
working, and in 1972 they formed a company called Traf-O-Data.
Unfortunately the device had to compete with a free service
offered by the State of Washington, so was not very well received.
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