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Bill Gates & Paul Allen originally founded Microsoft in Albuquerqe, New Mexico, in order to be reasonably close to Los Alamos because they wanted to get militar
by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
Bill Gates & Paul Allen originally founded Microsoft in Albuquerqe, New Mexico, in order to be reasonably close to Los Alamos because they wanted to get military contracts.
- wcarss 7y agoThis may not be a disagreement -- but I was under the impression they moved to Albuquerque to work at/with MITS[1], the manufacturer of the Altair, and Microsoft's first customer. 1 -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Telemetry_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Instrumentation_and_Tele...
- revvx 7y agoThe answer here confirms what you said: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=500807 http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=500807
- rudolfwinestock 7y agoI stand corrected.