Viajes Percianos

Out of Town News sat in the middle of the square. It was near the Harvard Coop, where I occasionally nosed around for books, and across the street from Brigham´s Ice Cream, where Bill and I went for chocolate shakes. I´d stop by the stand each month to check on periodicals like Radio Electronics and Popular Science. I´d purchase any that caught my eye, passing over the covers that hyped build-your-own ham radio transmitters.

Paul Allen, Idea Man Memoir. That´s how he tells the story of Microsoft inception. On that day he purchased an issue of Popular Electronics that announced the new Atlair 8800. He would then convince Bill Gates to write Basic software to run on it. The rest is history.

I took the picture above on one of our lasts days in Boston. Out of Towns News always reminds me of the power of curiosity, and how great bookstores can stimulate it.