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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

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"Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:

> "Rich Alderson" <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote in message 
> news:mdd7fojb1jl.fsf@panix5.panix.com...
>> "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> writes:

>>> The story is:  Gates saw the issue of Popular Electronics with the fake
>>> Altair computer on the front... and convinced his buddy from Washington
>>> state, Paul Allen, to develop a BASIC interpreter for the Altair.

>> That's just exactly backwards.  Paul Allen was working for Honeywell in
>> Cambridge (having dropped out of Washington State) and kept trying to
>> interest his old school friend in writing a BASIC for the 8080; the PE
>> article pushed them into doing it.

> You may be right about that... but I recall that Gates was telling Allen 
> that it may already be too late to get in on the ground floor.

Wouldn't surprise me.  After all, the PE article stated that BASIC was
available for the machine at introduction.  Vaporware, of course.

-- 
Rich Alderson                                   news@alderson.users.panix.com
    the russet leaves of an autumn oak/inspire once again the failed poet/
    to take up his pen/and essay to place his meagre words upon the page...

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