Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died in Seattle at the age of 65. The Microsoft co-founder was treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009, and earlier this month he said the cancer had returned.
Grafenwalder wrote:Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died in Seattle at the age of 65. The Microsoft co-founder was treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009, and earlier this month he said the cancer had returned.
Grafenwalder wrote:Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died in Seattle at the age of 65. The Microsoft co-founder was treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009, and earlier this month he said the cancer had returned.
supposedly a very unique and interesting man....kind of a recluse although he owned 2 major sports teams. Thing is when you have 20 billion dollars you dont have to worry about the finances of the sports teams too much.
Grafenwalder wrote:Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Bill Gates, has died in Seattle at the age of 65. The Microsoft co-founder was treated for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2009, and earlier this month he said the cancer had returned.
supposedly a very unique and interesting man....kind of a recluse although he owned 2 major sports teams. Thing is when you have 20 billion dollars you dont have to worry about the finances of the sports teams too much.
Surprised to find him and Gates hadn't invented the OS though but bought it for $50k off DOS inventor, Tim Paterson, then 'refined' it. The rest as they say is history with MS but what often get's overlooked is a British guy, Tommy Flowers, was there way before any of them. Flowers was a telecoms engineer who built the world's first programmable electronic computer in 1943 used at Bletchley Park code breaking station. Called "Colossus" and for good reason too - it's bloody huge! After the war Churchill ordered all of them to be destroyed but since the activities of Bletchley became public knowledge and opened up as a museum, a team of electronics engineers set about rebuilding a fully working replica.
This is a short clip of those who actually worked with the original Colossus machines which read code in real time. Flowers was a genius whom UK government gave very little recognition to until the 70's. Post war he attempted to raise a loan to build a Colossus but the bank declined because they didn't believe it would work. Flowers couldn't tell them he knew it would as he'd already designed and built them during the war because he was bound under the Official Secrets Act.