19 Sep
1998
19 Sep
'98
10:56 a.m.
I believe his last program was in 1986 for a Tandy machine. He's been
strictly buisness after that
I've got a question I've been meaning to ask
for a long time. Does Bill
Gates know how to program? If my memory serves me correct he knew how
to
progam in BASIC back in the late 70's, his buddy
Paul Allen knew
machine
language.
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19 Sep
19 Sep
2:29 p.m.
Max Eskin wrote:
That is what has been reported. There used to be a link to an
interview with Gates on the subject, but a fresh look through my
various Model 100 bookmarks fails to turn it up, though I read it
not much over a year ago.
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I believe his last program was in 1986 for a Tandy machine. He's been
strictly buisness after that
I've got a
question I've been meaning to ask for a long time. Does Bill
Gates know how to program? If my memory serves me correct he knew how
to
progam in BASIC back in the late 70's, his
buddy Paul Allen knew
machine
>language. 
3:44 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
That is what has been reported. There used to be a
link to an
interview with Gates on the subject, but a fresh look through my
various Model 100 bookmarks fails to turn it up, though I read it
not much over a year ago.
http://innovate.si.edu/history/gates/gates35.htm
-- Doug
4:32 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
Thanks for the info Doug!
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That is what has been reported. There used to be
a link to an
interview with Gates on the subject, but a fresh look through my
various Model 100 bookmarks fails to turn it up, though I read it
not much over a year ago.
http://innovate.si.edu/history/gates/gates35.htm
-- Doug 
10:25 p.m.
Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>
> > That is what has been reported. There used to be a link to an
> > interview with Gates on the subject, but a fresh look through my
> > various Model 100 bookmarks fails to turn it up, though I read it
> > not much over a year ago.
>
> http://innovate.si.edu/history/gates/gates35.htm
>
> -- Doug
This machine is one of my favorites (Model 100), in fact I use it quite
often..Very Cool the fact it runs on 4 AA batteries, and at that for many
hours..
It has no need for storage, it holds it all in its own memory. I have
several applications
I use it for that I wrote in basic.
That was an interesting article, to know that Bill Gates had a major hand in
writing the code for this machine.. The Radio Shack Model 100 is defiantly a
very cool
machine..
BTW: I was at Service Merchandise the other day and they had a similar
machine running
a GUI based software (Not Windows SE) , but it had the same concept as the
Model 100,
but with a GUI, No floppy drive, just memory storage, and a serial plug to
Up load the data..
It was not a pocket type, but a lap top size computer. Priced at $299.00
(Very Cheap)..
Price was so inexpensive bacause of no Hard Drive or Floppy,
No Color either but very good VGA type monochrome graphs and text..
A great machine for simple applications like WP and spreadsheets
--Phil
20 Sep
20 Sep
10:20 a.m.
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Phil Clayton wrote:
BTW: I was at Service Merchandise the other day and
they had a similar
machine running a GUI based software (Not Windows SE) , but it had the
same concept as the Model 100, but with a GUI, No floppy drive, just
memory storage, and a serial plug to Up load the data.. It was not a
pocket type, but a lap top size computer. Priced at $299.00 (Very
Cheap).. Price was so inexpensive bacause of no Hard Drive or Floppy,
No Color either but very good VGA type monochrome graphs and text.. A
great machine for simple applications like WP and spreadsheets --Phil
Did you know they put a man on the moon, too?
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1:11 p.m.
Phil Clayton wrote:
BTW: I was at Service Merchandise the other day and
they had a similar
Sam Ismail replied:
Did you know they put a man on the moon, too?
Service Merchandise? When???!!! Is that why they closed so many of their
retail outlets, to save money for their space program?
19 Sep
19 Sep
3:51 p.m.
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
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20 Sep
20 Sep
9:10 a.m.
On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, James Willing wrote:
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
DOH! An oppourtunity to plant a fatal booby-trap (no, I aint talking
blue-screens) missed!
-wayne
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