18 Apr
2005
18 Apr
'05
6:39 p.m.
I've paid thousands of dollars in the M$ tax over the years so he owes me.
This time, the stuff I got was all non-Microsoft.
I do love that "Letter to the Editor" whining piece he did. Soooo classic.
Soooo prescient.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Vintage Computer
Festival
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:07 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Altair MBL source
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 rcini at optonline.net wrote:
I was able to get binary copies of some Altair paper
tapes but none of
them came with manuals. I believe that they can be loaded with the
Altair Multi-Boot Loader, which I do not have.
Did you pay a license fee to Bill Gates? If not, he might get very angry
with you and post a long diatribe to the CC list about how software
pirates are a hurting good software developers.
"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and
deluge the hobby market with good software."*
Hahahaha.
* http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html
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