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Hundreds of new computer companies have made Texas the likely successor to California’s Silicon Valley, and it all started with two firms in Dallas.

Shudde Fath has read approximately 45,000 copies of the Austin American-Statesman. That’s because she and her then-newlywed husband, Conrad Fath, first subscribed to the paper at their garage apartment near the University of Texas campus in January 1939. “Been taking the paper ever since,” Fath, 104, says with a laugh. “One big thing back then is that we used to get two papers a day: the American in the morning and the Statesman in the evening. We’d read both.” In 1939, a monthly su...