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Word: computerspeak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Teaming up with Paul Allen, a friend and schoolmate, Gates formed a pint-size company, Traf-O-Data, that studied traffic patterns for small towns near Seattle. When he was 15 and a tenth-grader, the company grossed $20,000. Says Gates in his characteristic computerspeak: "I was a hard-core tech-Is noid." He temporarily abandoned computers for a year in the early 1970s for such nontechnical pursuits as acting in the school play, but he did not lose his touch for making money. While he was working as a congressional page in 1972, he and a friend snapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: A Hard-Core Technoid | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

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