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.
Gates and Allen used many UW computers, across the campus, but the projects ... - Read full post
This building, named after Microsoft’s co-founder, is the region’s nerve center for computer science education, sending graduates to Microsoft, Google, Amazon and many others.
OK, so N. 34th Street isn’t really the Center of the Universe for technology, but it’s in the “Center of the Universe,” Seattle’s irreverent Fremont neighborhood, and there’s a remarkable number of technology and life sciences companies located in this corridor.
If there was ever any doubt that Paul Allen is a bona fide geek, this place removes all of it. The Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, an expansion of the Microsoft co-founder’s undulating Experience Music Project, is an homage to science fiction TV shows and movies. Its current collection has plenty of must-sees ... - Read full post
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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