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Paul Allen Buys Old MITS Building

Posted by Hemos on from the reusing-space dept.

u2mr2os2 writes "Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has purchased the building where Microsoft had its first office along with MITS (Altair creator). The long term plan for this is to possibly turn it into a computer museum. Sure, it would be MS tilted, but at least it'll give other geeks a reason to come visit Albuquerque (it's not as bad as The Pirates of Silicon Valley portrayed. Story is in the local papers.."

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  1. "And this is the spot... by Richy_T · · Score: 5
    where Bill Gates invented the Internet. If you look just here, you can see the shoe marks where Al Gore stood over his shoulder offering suggentions."

    Rich

  2. /. paying for links? by Sticky+Toejam · · Score: 3

    OK Hemos, did you actually pay for this link? Be honest!!!

  3. For those interested in m$ history by toast- · · Score: 3

    I have a page with a couple pieces of interesting PC (Including early microsoft) history. Check them out Here

    Granted it's not the New Mexico address, but still very interesting.

    Included is pics of MSDOS 1.1, CP/M X86 1.0 (a tad too late), and a sheet from the Basic manual of an old Z80 based Computer (which came in a woodgrain case, probably about 1977). This Basic manual page was the only reference to Microsoft i could find.

  4. He'll probably turn the building into... by mjfgates · · Score: 3

    ... a seventy-foot-high replica of an Altair, with and stoplights for the panel LEDs.... and it'll all work. Swarms of employees will show up every morning, turn it on, and manually enter a copy of the first version of Microsoft Basic using a backhoe to flip the six-foot-long toggle switches. Then put in "Lunar Lander" or something and run that all day, and then shut it off to go home at night.

  5. Re:There are better uses by PD · · Score: 5

    Oh for chrissake. You're just like those people who say let's not go to the moon because there's people starving on Earth.

    I say, why not turn the static display Saturn V at the Cape into rent controlled housing? Two birds, one rocket. Wait, the rocket is a bird. Make that three birds.

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  6. Paul Allen and DEC nostalgia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3

    I read somewhere that Paul Allen is still into hacking PDP-11s and other DEC oldies but goodies. I belive that MS used PDP-11 hardware to cross-assemble early Microsoft products. I heard that he is still a participant in the crowd that hacks old deck hardware. The guy can't be all bad. Anyway, he's a big baseball fan so that's a plus in my book too.

  7. Display: by omarius · · Score: 5
    In this case lies one of the original copies of Altair BASIC. It is one of the very first Microsoft products. This is an original, not a copy made by some dirty hippie hacker in a computer club. I'll get you thieving bastards if it's the last thing I do! When I am Emperor, you'll be first up against the wall! Bide your time, filty commie code stealers! AHAHAHAHA!

    Do not lean on case.

    -Omar

  8. Are you telling me... by Mindwarp · · Score: 5

    ...that Microsoft are going to be the sole owners of the ONLY MS Computer Museum in the whole of Albuquerque? Have they learned nothing from the Justice Department experience? This is clearly yet another demonstration of Microsoft's domination of the marketplace!

    ;-)

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