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Organization

Lakeside School

Private school in Seattle where Bill Gates and Paul Allen met.

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Place
Seattle

In the late 1960s the Lakeside Mothers Club paid for a teletype linked to a time-sharing computer. Two students who learned to program on it, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, later founded Microsoft.

Connections 2

alumni and students

  • Bill Gates student; learned to program on the school's teletype Primary record 1
  • Paul Allen student Primary record 1
Proof 1 source
  1. Remarks by Bill Gates at Lakeside School, Gates Foundation, 23 Sep 2005. Primary record
    When I came here as a 7th grader in the late 1960s, there were a number of faculty members who worked together to get a computer terminal on the campus.
    The experience and insight Paul Allen and I gained here gave us the confidence to start a company based on this wild idea that nobody else agreed with
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