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Traf-O-Data

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Business card of Traf-O-Data company

Traf-O-Data is the IT company founded in 1972. Programming of road counters and traffic lights at intersections was core business of the enterprise.

The employee in her was only three - Paul Allen, Paul Gilbert and Bill Gates. Within this office for municipality of Seattle the management program for traffic for a system based on the microprocessor of Intel 8008 was written. Traf-O-Data earned from it twenty thousand dollars. But though made for Allen's recognition by Traf-O-Data some profit, but in general business was not too successful. The partners pressed by price competition were forced to cover the enterprise. However what could break others for Allen and Gates became only a quite good lesson on the future to create more powerful organization, namely Microsoft.

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Startupgallery.org: History of Traf-O-Data company