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  1. Oct 16, 2018 · Gates and Allen felt this process could be done more efficiently and more inexpensively, an idea that soon evolved into the friends’ first-ever business: Traf-o-Data. At the time, Gates was...

  2. In Seattle, Washington, from 1973-74 high school students Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Paul Gilbert founded a partnership called Traf-O-Data. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers.

  3. Apr 4, 2011 · They built a computer based on an Intel 8008 chip and used it to analyze traffic data for the Washington state highway department, doing business as Traf-O-Data. Allen went to work for...

  4. Traf-O-Data was a business partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers. The company had only modest success but the experience was instrumental...

  5. Oct 16, 2018 · The first thing they did that could be called a business was Traf-O-Data. At an event in 2017 to celebrate the naming of the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the...

  6. Oct 27, 2011 · All the work I did was in Fortran – which was the first version of the Lakeside (High School) programming software and the program we used to print out Traf-O-Data traffic volume analyses. This was where we did our first work using UW computers. There was a WANG calculator in the engineering building. In the same room there was a teletype.

  7. Apr 18, 2009 · "Traf-O-Data" and it was meant to automate the processing of data collected by traffic counters — those black hoses we drive over on roads — according to the Startup Web site about Microsoft...

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