Last Updated on April 10, 2017 by Dave Farquhar
Bill Gates and Paul Allen posed for a re-creation of a famous early Microsoft photograph this week; at the same event, Gates’ pre-Microsoft resume surfaced.
I wouldn’t call any of this earth-shattering, but it’s interesting to see these relics of the early computing era. While some of the people who made this revolution happen are no longer with us, some of them were very young in the mid 1970s when it was happening, and those who were successful are now at the point in their lives when they can talk about it.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.