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Pastimes : Where the GIT's are going -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sandintoes who wrote (166677)	9/17/2008 2:35:17 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

LOL Was he a college drop out also?? Of course. Early years Paul Gardner Allen was born in Seattle, Washington, to parents Kenneth S. Allen, an associate director of the University of Washington libraries, and Faye G. Allen, in January 21, 1953.[6] Allen attended Lakeside School, a private school in Seattle, and befriended Bill Gates, who was two years his junior but shared a common enthusiasm for computers.[7] They used Lakeside's teletype terminal to develop their programming skills on several time-sharing computer systems.[8] After graduation Allen attended Washington State University and was an active member in Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity.[8] He dropped out after two years in order to work as a programmer for Honeywell in Boston, which placed him near his old friend again.[8] Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft.[7] Like I say, dishin' out Slurpees at 7-11. A lot of these Microsoft Millionaires are like that. Right time, right place, and but for the fortuity of it all, they would not have fared nearly as well. (I've encountered a number of them in my work)