One of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world started in 1981 when Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, made a deal to license MS-DOS to IBM (or how Steve Jobs used to call the company “Big Brother”), while retaining ownership of the software. To stamp the moment in history, they both took a picture surrounded by computer systems popular at that time; and now 32 years later, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, once again got together to recreate the iconic photograph.
So much fun catching up w/ computing pioneers at the #LCMCelebration last night! Here I am with old friend @BillGates pic.twitter.com/a5aQaamH9H
— Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen) April 4, 2013
The picture was taken at Seattle’s Living Computer Museum founded by Mr. Allen with all the same computers.
Image via Paul Allen | via Gizmodo
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