04-04-1975 Microsoft Founded?
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Alice Agogino |
| Description: | Engineering Pathway's "Today in History" blog for April 4. Excerpt: "Today in History - April 4, 1975 - The Microsoft Company founded. Well actually, Microsoft's archivist has no record of a noteworthy Microsoft event that might have happened on April 4. The closest event appears to be a hand written tax form dated on April 1 that may have reached the IRS on April 4. As a number of websites lists April 4 as the founding date for Microsoft, I thought I'd write the blog anyway. But this date may be an urban myth, possibly started with a Wikipedia error on the date. Do stay tuned to Amy Stevenson's more informed blog on July 22, the date that Bill Gates and Paul Allen Licensed BASIC to Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS). BASIC was the first computer language program written for a personal computer. This really was what launched Gates and Allen as a viable business entity." |
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| Keywords: | history of computing Bill Gates William Gates Microsoft |
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"Today in History" Blog of the Engineering Pathway Digital Library |
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History of technology |
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| Download URL: | http://www.k-grayengineeringeducation.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/ |
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