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Paul Allen is an investor, inventor, philanthropist and as most people know him as; the co-founder of the computer software giant Microsoft Corporation. He is the 53rd richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $15 billion.
Allen was born on 21 st January 1953 in Seattle, Washington. He went to Lakeside School where he became friends with Bill Gates who shared his passion for computers and technology. They used to work on their programming skills on their school's computers. Allen achieved a 1600 on his SATS and enrolled in Washington State University however dropped out two years later to work as a programmer for Honeywell. It was Allen who talked Bill Gates out of continuing studies at Harvard so they could work on the big idea that was 'Microsoft'. Paul Allen co-created Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975 with a BASIC programming language translator. According to Fortune Magazine he was the one to name the project Microsoft. The duo reinvented Q-DOS to MS-DOS and set it up as the operating system for IBM's PCs which became a huge success in the market after it was released in 1981.

The computer enthusiast parted from Microsoft after he found out that he had the Hodgkin's disease. While he underwent treatment, Microsoft expanded and its stock value increased making Allen a billionaire at the age of just 30. Paul Allen focused on other projects hoping to create another 'big' idea like Microsoft. He founded Vulcan Ventures in 1986 to look for investment possibilities. To further that he also established Interval Research in 1992. Allen did not invest in a single area instead decided to be diverse in his investments that included SureFind, America Online, Starwave, Teluscan, software, hardware and wireless communications. He made an infrastructure of more than 30 companies in order to achieve his dream of a 'wired world'. His company Vulcan acquired Marcus Cable and almost 90% of Charter Communications making Allen the holder of the 7 th biggest cable company of America. He invested in other ventures such as the Interval Research Corporation, South Lake Union and Ticketmaster. He was the only investor in Burt Rutan's commercial spacecraft called Scaled Composites' SpaceShipOne suborbital.

Paul Allen also does a substantial amount of philanthropic work in the fields of human services, health and science and technology. His organization the ' Paul G. Allen Family Foundation ' was set up in 1986 and it donates almost $30 million in endowments every year. He also gave 26 million dollars to his alma mater the Washington State University. Allen is also the co-owner and executive producer of Vulcan Productions which is a filmmaking firm based in Seattle. Its goal is to start, develop and fund independent film projects of high importance. These films have achieved recognition from Golden Globes, Independent Spirit Awards, Emmys and Grammys. They have also been nominated in the Academy Awards.

Allen's yacht the 'Octopus' was one of the biggest yachts in 2003. By 2011 it was ranked 12 th in the list of motor yachts by length. Allen holds huge events and parties on his yacht like the New Year's party of 2005.

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Paul Allen | Biography, Pictures and Facts

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Paul Allen is an investor, inventor, philanthropist and as most people know him as; the co-founder of the computer software giant Microsoft Corporation. He is the 53rd richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $15 billion. Allen was born on 21 st January 1953 in Seattle, Washington.

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En 1975 fundó Microsoft junto a Bill Gates.

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We all owe a lot to Gary. Brian Halla,
former CEO of National Semiconductor

Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more people might have used it.

In other CHM blog posts we have told the story of Digital Research and CP/M by celebrating its 40th anniversary, and releasing the source code. The influence on the nascent personal computer industry was profound.

But what do we know about the man who created all this? Kildall died in 1994, at the young age of 52. He never published an autobiography, and there are no book-length biographies.

There is more, however. In 1993, the year before his untimely death, Gary wrote a draft of a memoir titled Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry. He distributed bound copies to family and friends, with a note that it "will go to print in final form early next year." It never did.

The ownership of that manuscript passed to Gary's children, Scott and Kristin. With their permission, we are pleased to make available the first portion of that memoir, along with their introduction to it and previously unpublished family photos.

"Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don't know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he 'missed' the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a 'could-have-been,' ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how computer platforms run today.

Gary viewed computers as learning tools rather than profit engines. His career choices reflect a different definition of success, where innovation means sharing ideas, letting passion drive your work and making source code available for others to build upon. His work ethic during the 1970s resembles that of the open-source community today.

With this perspective, we offer a portion of our father's unpublished memoirs so that you can read about his experiences and reflections on the early days of the computer industry, directly in his own voice.

In this excerpt Gary writes about his vision for bringing the new microprocessors into homes and businesses. In 1974, he invented CP/M, the first operating system that could run on these new desktop platforms. Soon after, he created the BIOS, which enabled CP/M to easily interface with different computer hardware.

CP/M became the de facto standard personal computer operating system in these early days. For the next 20 years, Gary continued inventing and breaking ground on new technologies, such as the first commercially available CD-ROM: an encyclopedia, which provided a comprehensive source of desktop knowledge.

With our mother, Dorothy McEwen, Gary founded Digital Research Inc. (DRI) as a software company in 1974, in the beachside town of Pacific Grove, just a one-hour drive south of Silicon Valley. This software startup was the vehicle for his inventions. DRI provided the CP/M source code to Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and created an API that enabled companies to develop new software applications. Our parents believed that the operating system business should be separate from the applications business, to create a more thriving industry without monopolistic practices.

On the personal side, our father worked passionately to share his creations but also led a balanced life and was dedicated to our family. Our dad was just as likely to put in late night hours at work as to cut out early to take us waterskiing, have a backyard party, or make R2-D2 costumes for the entire second-grade class. As kids we didn't see him as a software genius, but as a dedicated father who opened up our own creative channels. He showed us how to draw cartoon characters, and how to make a faster derby race car. He made backyard movies with us, played the guitar, and sang to us each night as we fell asleep. We are grateful to be his family and to share a part of his life with you.

While this excerpt was part of an early draft of Gary's memoir that he shared only with family and friends, we feel that we are honoring his love of sharing ideas by making it available. In this excerpt, you will read how Gary and Dorothy started from modest means as a young married couple, paved a new path for start-up culture, and embraced their idea of success to become leaders in the industry. Our father embodied a definition of success that we can all learn from: one that puts inventions, ideas, and a love of life before profits as the paramount goal.

We have chosen to release only the first portion of his memoir. Unfortunately Gary's passion for life also manifested in a struggle with alcoholism, and we feel that the unpublished preface and later chapters do not reflect his true self. If you want to read more about events in his later life and the further development of CP/M, They Made America by Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, and David Lefer has an excellent chapter on this topic.

We hope you enjoy this glimpse into the life of a man who was inventive, compassionate and loved life."
- Scott Kildall and Kristin Kildall

Please savor this remarkable insight into a creative personality. But note that the Museum's license to publish this excerpt requires that we will first ask you to agree not to reproduce, publicly display, or distribute it online or in print. We welcome you to link to this page to give others access.

Download the Kildall Manuscript [2.31MB]

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We all owe a lot to Gary. Brian Halla, former CEO of National Semiconductor Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M).

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Creo un sistema operativo de discos para crear un entorno de desarrollo para computadoras PL/M, y de allí surgió CP/M, que al principio vendía en avisos clasificados en las últimas páginas de revistas de computación.

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Met een vermogen van 78,5 miljard dollar heeft Bill Gates de koppositie van Carlos Slim overgenomen en daarmee mag hij zich weer de rijkste man op aarde noemen.
15,8 miljard groei
Het vermogen van de inmiddels 58-jarige Microsoft founder steeg het afgelopen jaar met 15,8 miljard dollar. Genoeg om de Mexicaanse zakenman ( en groot KPN-aandeelhouder) Carlos Slim van zijn troon te stoten. Gates heeft het lucratieve jaar naast zijn inkomen bij Microsoft vooral te danken aan een forse stijging van zijn aandelen in Canadian National Railway en Ecolab.

Bill Gates mag er een royaal leven op nahouden, maar dat betekent niet dat de techgigant gierig is. Hij heeft nu al zo'n 28 miljard dollar in de Bill en Melinda Gates Foundation gepompt, de immens grote stichting die op het punt staat om polio uit te roeien.

De nummer 1 notering werd bekend gemaakt via de Bloombergs Billionaires Index. Een lijst met de 300 rijkste personen op aarde. Hij werd in 2013 ook al door Forbes uitgeroepen tot -wederom- de rijkste persoon op aarde.

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El creo el sistema operativo más eficiente de todo el mundo actual Microsoft.

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personajes importantes de la computacion

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El creador del sistema operativo "Linux" Linus Torvalds

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El creador del sistema operativo "Linux" Linus Torvalds

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Colaboradores de los proyectos Wikimedia

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Linus Torvalds - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre

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Empezó a trabajar en el desarrollo de un kernel basado en el sistema operativo propietario UNIX para computadoras con microprocesadores de Intel. Una vez creado, lo puso a disposición del público a través de un servidor FTP de la universidad finlandesa.

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15.6" laptop - amd a6-series - 4gb memory - amd radeon r4 - 500gb hard drive

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HP - 15.6" Laptop - AMD A6-Series - 4GB Memory - AMD Radeon R4 - 500GB Hard Drive - HP finish in jet black

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HP 15.6" Laptop - AMD A6-Series - 4GB Memory - AMD Radeon R4 - 500GB Hard Drive: DVD-Writer drive; 15.6" display; Bluetooth; HDMI output; 500GB hard drive; 4GB DDR4 SDRAM; high-speed wireless LAN; SD card slot

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Surge a partir de los avances tecnológicos que se encontraron. Se crea entonces la computadora portátil o Laptop tal cual la conocemos en la actualidad. IBM presenta su primera Laptop o computadora portátil y revoluciona el sector informativo.

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January 29, 2007 by davidallen | Leave a Comment
Filed Under Hardware, Technology

For some time we have wondered if and when the technology sector would answer the burning question that has been on many of our minds lately. How far and how small will the technology that we use on a day to day basis, such as mobile phones, computers, PDA's and other items that require "Chips" in order to bring the whole thing together?

Well it has been a long and frustrating wait but we now have an answer of sorts. After years of research and development, lead by IBM with their partners Sony, Toshiba and AMD, it is believed that they have developed a tiny processor or "Transistor Switch" which is the basis of the new smaller technology, this switches on and off, so what? But the simple on and off movement is the basis of any chip and now they are able to produce them much smaller than before.

This technology when it becomes readily available will transform technology as we know it, as more and more day to day items that we use in business and in the home now rely on mini computers to run and function properly.

The production of these transistors will enable the manufacturers of mobile communications to produce smaller, yet more powerful phones, this will revolutionize the marketplace as there will be so much more that these phones can do, that there will be a crossover between mobile communications and computers, meaning that there will be a point where some people will not need both, they will either be happy to use a new more powerful phone, rather than a laptop or PC and visa versa.

Intel is also working on this idea, they are looking to increase the amount of transistors that can be placed onto a piece of silicon, which will increase the amount of work that the chip is able to do. Intel have already created advanced computer chips, when they introduced the duel core, but they have come a long way since then with the development of even more powerful processors, they have plans to produce up to fifteen processors, which will be gradually brought in over the next decade or so.

So, after all the talk about where technology is going and has it reached its limit, the answer is no, we can look forward to seeing more powerful yet smaller products being launched by all the major electrical manufacturing sectors.

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January 29, 2007 by davidallen | Leave a Comment Filed Under Hardware, Technology For some time we have wondered if and when the technology sector would answer the burning question that has been on many of our minds lately.

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Fase caracterizada por la integración sobre los componentes electrónicos, lo que propició la aparición del Microprocesador un único circuito integrado en el que se reúnen los elementos básicos de la máquina. Se desarrolló el "chip".

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Comienza a utilizarse los circuitos integrados, lo cual permitió abaratar costos al mismo tiempo que se aumentaba la capacidad de procesamiento y se reducía el tamaño de las máquinas.

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El invento del transistor hizo posible una nueva generación de computadoras, más rápidas, más pequeñas y con menores necesidades de ventila...

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La segunda generación de las computadoras reemplazó las válvulas de vació por los transistores. Por eso, las computadoras de la segunda generación son más pequeñas y consumen menos electricidad que las de la anterior. Utilizaban tecnología de Transistores

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En 1945 se puso en funcionamiento la computadora ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), creada por John W. Mauchly y J. Presper Eckert, y la cual da el inicio a la era computacional actual. La computadora ENIAC, considerada por muchos como la primera computadora , era tanto universal como programable y se le podía otorgar el apelativo de electrónica.

Componentes y dimensiones

La ENIAC supuso la evolución o avance de lo que representó la , tenía un tamaño realmente enorme ya que lograba ocupar 160 metros cuadrados y su peso era de 30 toneladas. 17,468 válvulas de vacío eran indispensables para su adecuado funcionamiento, las cuales relevaron los conmutadores electromagnéticos que yacían al interior de la Mark I. Asimismo, contaba con 10,000 condensadores y 70,000 resistencias y su consumo rondaba los 200 kilovatios.

Con la llegada de la generación del transistor en los años 50 y con la invención de los semiconductores, los diodos y obviamente el transistor, hace su aparición la segunda generación o era computacional, la cual trajo como novedades principales la reducción del tamaño que era indudablemente necesaria. Así, surgen las compuertas lógicas al lado de sus circuitos derivados, extendiendo el tiempo de vida de esta segunda era hasta el año 1964 aproximadamente.

Pero remontémonos de nuevo a los orígenes de la eniac. La idea surge luego de varias charlas con el Dr. Atanasoff, de analizar apuntes que contenían descripciones de los principios de la computadora ABC y de observarla de forma directa, en persona, John W. Mauchly y J. Presper Eckert se dedicaron a desarrollar y crear una máquina que tuviera como función calcular tablas de trayectoria para el ejército de los Estados Unidos de América. Como resultado del experimento, obtuvieron una computadora electrónica totalmente operacional y a una gran escala, a la cual se le bautizó bajo el nombre de ENIAC, o Integrador Numérico Electrónico y Computador en español.

Así, tenemos que la ENIAC se construyó inicialmente para fines relacionados con la Segunda Guerra Mundial y el tiempo de su creación fue de 30 meses, período en el cual, un grupo selecto de científicos trabajaron en un proyecto contra reloj. La computadora ENIAC aventajaba a sus antecesoras electromecánicas ya que era mil veces más rápida, por tal razón, surgió como una relevante invención en el mundo de la tecnología de computadores. Como mencionábamos anteriormente, su colosal peso cercano a las 30 toneladas y su enorme tamaño, hacían que ocupara un cuarto o espacio de 6 x 12 metros, conteniendo casi 18,000 bulbos en total. La forma de programación de este "elefante" de las computadoras era completamente manual y se llevaba a cabo conectando la ENIAC a tres tableros que portaban más de 6000 interruptores en total.

Debido a la gran magnitud de su estructura y composición, cada vez que se deseaba ingresar o instalar un nuevo programa, había que pasar por un largo y tedioso proceso que podía tardar días, a veces hasta semanas. La ENIAC funcionaba a través del uso de un sistema decimal (0, 1, 2, 3...9), a diferencia de los computadores actuales que funcionan bajo un sistema binario (0,1), de allí la lentitud en la mayor parte de sus operaciones.

Otro dato relevante en relación a la computadora ENIAC es que se alimentaba de muchísima electricidad, demasiada a decir verdad. De hecho, cuenta la historia de la computadora, que como fue construida en las instalaciones de la Universidad de Pensilvania en los Estados Unidos ubicada en Filadelfia, cada vez que se encendía la eniac, las luces en Filadelfia siempre bajaban, o en otras palabras, cada vez que sucedía un bajón de luz en la ciudad en aquella época, era posiblemente atribuido a que la enorme computadora se hubiera activado.

Capacidad de cómputo

Sin embargo, para aquella época, era un dispositivo computacional realmente rápido y eficiente ya que tenía la capacidad de realizar 5,000 sumas o adiciones por segundo, lo que hacía que en tan solo 20 segundos realizara la labor que a una persona normal le podía tomar 40 horas o más.

La eniac tenía 500,000 conexiones que habían sido soldadas manualmente y su programación se realizaba cambiando el cableado que estaba ubicado en el panel de control, el cual se asemejaba bastante a los actuales paneles utilizados para los teléfonos con una gran cantidad de cables.

Un dato curioso, es que en algunas oportunidades, las luces de la computadora eniac atraían las polillas, las cuales se atoraban y causaban fallas en su funcionamiento. A razón de esta curiosidad, y como en inglés a este tipo de animales se les conoce como "bugs" (bichos), es que nace la palabra conocida en el medio informático como "bug", o sea, las fallas que se presentan en el computador.

La computadora ENIAC trajo consigo algunas mejoras importantes, como el uso del sistema binario compuesto por dos dígitos a cambio del utilizado por la computadora Mark I, el cual era un sistema decimal de 10 dígitos, dando la posibilidad de que los cálculos se pudieran efectuar a la velocidad de la electricidad.

En la actualidad, aproximadamente un 10% de lo que fue la computadora ENIAC original se encuentra en el mismo cuarto donde fue creada hace más de 60 años. Lo que queda de la computadora fue encendida una vez más en 1996 con motivo de la celebración de los 50 años de su construcción. El lugar donde se guarda la computadora se encuentra normalmente cerrado al público aunque la Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas de la Universidad de Pensilvania tiene en exhibición permanente cuatro de los cuarenta paneles originales que integraron la ENIAC.

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En 1945 se puso en funcionamiento la computadora ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), creada por John W. Mauchly y J. Presper Eckert, y la cual da el inicio a la era computacional actual. La computadora ENIAC, considerada por muchos como la primera computadora , era tanto universal como programable y se le podía otorgar el apelativo de electrónica.

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Estaban construidas con electrónica de válvulas. Se programaban en lenguaje de la máquina.

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¿Cómo se divide los avances de las computadoras?

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¿Cómo se divide los avances de las computadoras?

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Se divide en Generaciónes y las cuales hay alrededor conocidas de 4 a 5 pero algunas personas dicen de qué el ser humano esta en la 7ma generación ya.

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El tema obviamente es la Computación, el cual si inventor de manera indirecta es John Napier

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Por qué ellos descubrieron el fuego y gracias a ello actualmente hay muchos avances

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Obviamente todo inicio con la creación de algo,y eso fue con la ayuda de los primitivos