It was there that his son, Bill Fernandez, and his son's friend, Steve Wozniak, built the Cream Soda computer--the machine that might have changed history had it not shorted out during a presentation to a local reporter.

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In the summer of 1975 a Harvard junior, Bill Gates, drove to Albuquerque and with his friend Paul Allen started a company, Micro-Soft, to write an operating system called BASIC for the Altair 8800.

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Armstrong never responded, but his longtime friend and agent Bill Stapleton did.

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Both Mr. Armstrong and his longtime agent and friend, Bill Stapleton, testified under oath in a 2005 arbitration case that this conversation never happened.

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For seven years Warren Buffett, the so-called Oracle of Omaha, ranked just behind his good friend and bridge partner Bill Gates as the world's second-richest man.

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The bachelor enrolled in the four month call center training course at Orion Edutech after hearing about it from a friend in Bangalore, and his parents agreed to heft the 45, 000 rupee bill (900 dollars).

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