{"id":104357,"date":"2020-10-12T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=104357"},"modified":"2020-10-11T17:07:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T00:07:33","slug":"20201012-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20201012-00\/?p=104357","title":{"rendered":"In 1979, some software company in Bellevue was hiring"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m guessing that my colleague Chad Beeder<\/a> had some time on his hands, because he discovered that the Seattle Public Library has searchable archives of the Seattle Times<\/i> going back to 1895. The earliest mention of Microsoft was a classified ad from October 10, 1979:<\/p>\n

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position, please call 453-4600 for more information. An Equal Opportunity Employer, M\/F\/H.<\/div>\n
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COMPUTER System Programer, full time. Position involves design\u00ading, debugging & maintaining compiler, interpreters & operating systems for micro-processors. Re\u00adquires BS or MS in computer sci\u00adence plus at least 2 yrs directly re\u00adlated experience. Company paid health insurance. Salary $18,000. Send resume to: Microsoft, 10800 N.E. 8th St, Suite 819, Bellevue, WA, 98004.<\/div>\n
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CONTROLLER<\/div>\n
CPA, preferably experienced in<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Y’know, before hiring a programer<\/i>, you may want to hire a proofreader.<\/p>\n

The downtown Bellevue address used to be the Old National Bank building. (That is, the building for the bank named Old National<\/i>, not the old building for the National Bank<\/i>.) It is now known as U.S. Bank Plaza<\/i>, with retail banking on the ground floor and offices on the upper floors.<\/p>\n

Bonus chatter<\/b>: At the old Bellevue office, you could walk in off the street and buy software from the receptionist. You did have to sign a license agreement in person, though.<\/p>\n

Bonus reading<\/b>: Moving out of the downtown Bellevue office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digging through the archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-104357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

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