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I guess back in the day, the Silicon Prairie was a thing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Prairie). I finished watching the show Halt and Catch Fire a while back and was surprised how the entire first two seasons started out in Texas.

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At the time, I think Compaq was the fastest-growing startup in history. And, of course, Dell also came out of Texas--albeit the Dallas area rather than Houston. TI is also a Texas company. Etc.

Dell is Austin or more accurately now, Round Rock — pretty sure he was a Texas student.

> pretty sure he was a Texas student.

Indeed, the story is that he got his start selling PCs out of his Jester dorm room.

Room 2713 in Dobie Center, an off campus dorm

I buy that. The story is apocryphal and my sourcing of Jester was from this Texas Monthly [1] article.

[1] https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/good-bye-to-all-that/

Duh. I knew that. I’ve been to the HQ and for some reason I was probably conflating with EDS.

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