27 Feb
2001
27 Feb
'01
12:20 p.m.
Given that average lead times in magazines to publication is two
months, and Gates and Allen got the January issue from the
newsstand, which is later than a subscription anyway, the Feb
issue was already at the printers' before they would have had a
chance to read the Jan issue all the way through.
One reference says that Yates was a hardware engineer
who, with
Roberts and Jim Bybee, designed the Altair before Gates and Allen were
on the scene. See:
http://www.inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa1201
98.htm
Another reference identifies Yates as a former Air Force officer with
an aeronautical engineering background:
http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/reiman/03_1998.html
Couldn't find anything about van Baalen, but if Yates is not Gates,
then it is likely that van Baalen is not Allen.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
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----- Original Message -----
From: "John Allain" <John.Allain(a)Donnelley.InfoUSA.Com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: RE: Popular Computing on eBay for $150+
Paul Braun WD9GCO
Cygnus Productions
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"A computer without a Microsoft operating system is like a dog without a bunch of
bricks tied to its head."
> "William Yates and Paul van Baalen"
Wasn't Bill Yates listed as a co-author on
the
original Altair article in P-E with Ed Roberts?
To keep the thread going, yes, by recollection.
But anybody know these people?
The names sounded like aliases for (the) Bill & Paul.
John A.