This drive-in fast-food restaurant is a longtime favorite of Bill Gates, and probably your best chance of catching a glimpse of the Microsoft chairman, apart from spotting him and wife Melinda on one of their nights out at the movies in Seattle.
The Microsoft chairman’s high-tech Medina mansion, built in the mid-1990s on the shores of Lake Washington, is considered notable enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Unless you have your own boat, or can somehow wrangle a personal invitation from Bill and Melinda, the best way to glimpse the property is on a boat or airplane tour of the Seattle region.
This recently revamped and relocated facility showcases Microsoft products, past and present, and offers a chance to play Xbox 360 games on a giant screen. Across the hall is the company store, also recently relocated, where the public can buy merchandise but not software or hardware, which are sold at an employee discount.
This was the UW computer center, then known as Roberts Hall Annex, 40 years ago when two kids named Paul Allen and Bill Gates hung out here, honing their programming skills using punched cards on a CDC 6400 and a Burroughs 5500.
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A comprehensive history of the personal computer, in the back of a used computer store. Featuring real models of many of the machines that fueled the PC revolution, as wide-ranging as the DEC Rainbow 100 and the Apple Lisa.
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