Marvin Johnston wrote:
anyone know whatever happened to Tim Patterson? I
never hear his name mentioned,
He was hired by Microsoft sometime in the 1990s and worked well enough
there that he left with enough money and stock to retire. I can't help
but think that this was the result of a few influential people within
the company feeling guilty for how his $50,000 sale was turned into 50
billion dollars...
Of course, I feel bad for Gary Kildall's code getting ripped off too,
but his wife kind-of dug that grave for him, IIRC.
Anyway, last I heard of Tim, he was building robots and competing with
them for one of those battling robots shows (in the US, not Robot Wars
in the UK).
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