Does Bill Gates know how to program?

Well... having no specific definitive knowledge on the topic, I can offer the following comment... A couple of years back, when I loaned Mr. Gates one of the Altairs from my collection for him to use in a presentation to the Smithsonian (has anyone seen the video of the interview?), I spent about 2 hours teaching a couple of his minions how to start up an Altair, start BASIC from a ROM card, and enter and run a 20+ year old three line sine wave program (which he used in the presentation and claimed as his own) so that they could pass this arcane knowledge back to him... All of this while I was restoring an Altair 8800B for him... (ah... the stories...) -jim --- jimw(a)agora.rdrop.com The Computer Garage - http://www.rdrop.com/~jimw Computer Garage Fax - (503) 646-0174