27 Feb
2001
27 Feb
'01
4:54 a.m.
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/aa120198.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
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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+
> "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.