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I have this photo also, as again we looked a lot alike at that age.I know Bill Gates was pretty good on the phone when he was a young man, this is something some people with aspies would find difficult, when I was younger I couldn't gain the confidence to phone people I didn't know and I still find it difficult even today (it causes anxiety). I know this because an old trusted work college of mine actually spoke to Bill Gates in the late 1970s when Microsoft was still a small relatively unheard of business. He had some technical queries about Microsoft BASIC and Bill Gates himself actually came to the phone to give some good advise, but back then he was unknown to most people and my work college wouldn't had known at the time just how famous and wealthy he would become. I know this was true as he even got sent a follow up fax with more in depth technical advise that was signed by Bill Gates, he still had the original many years later when Microsoft and Bill Gates had become a household name and he showed it off to everyone in the IT office including myself with pride.
I will leave you a photo of the Microsoft team from 1978, about the time my work college spoke to Bill Gates and there he is in the bottom left corner.
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