The REAL Inventor of Microsoft

I'd like to suggest that the real inventor of Microsoft was my wife. Long before there was an internet she had folders. And they could be opened any time you needed information. You also could store information in these folders.

In fact, they're still open and accessible anytime in her desk.

Want to know when and where we bought our bedroom set 57 years ago and how much we paid? It's in a folder. And still in our bedroom. They don't make furniture like that anymore.

Want to know when we last bought carpeting (before this year) and how much we paid and where we got it? Look in the folder. It was 22 years ago.

We each have our own “health” folder in case we need to know when a procedure was done.

There's a “home improvement” folder that tells you, among other things, every time we had to replace a water heater and you could cringe at the how much more it cost each time we had to do it.

She's also got her Mah Jong cards for the last 17 years despite the fact the hands change every year. So what's the point of saving them? Saving them.

Why, I asked her, do you keep all this stuff?

“It seemed like the thing to do at the time and I just keep doing it,” she said, opening another folder for this summer's vacation in Maine.

What did Bill Gates know and when did he know it?