15 Jun
1998
15 Jun
'98
5:37 a.m.
Hi. Now, I don't want to start a flamewar, but still, Microsoft HAS played
an important part in personal computing, for better or for worse. From 1986
or so onwards, they were a industry dominator.
Now, from what I understand, the origional MS logo was GREEN? Somebody
have a picture?
Other than OS's and current Office Applications (and, of course,
Internet Explorer, which is a decent browser, and DOES have pleanty of
innovation, if you're prepared to admit it.), what did MS make? Anything
for say... the Apple II? PDP's? UN*X boxes (once again, omitting current
ports of IE 4.0)?
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
15 Jun
15 Jun
5:50 a.m.
At 05:37 PM 6/15/98 +0300, you wrote:
Other than OS's and current Office Applications
(and, of course,
Internet Explorer, which is a decent browser, and DOES have pleanty of
innovation, if you're prepared to admit it.), what did MS make? Anything
for say... the Apple II? PDP's? UN*X boxes (once again, omitting current
ports of IE 4.0)?
Does Microsoft BASIC on the TRS-80 Model 100 count?
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6:40 a.m.
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Absolutely. Applesoft BASIC (in every II+ and later,
and installed as
an option in most II's) was written by Microsoft. Microsoft also sold
several well-known Apple II games (ADVENTURE is the most well-known).
Olympic Decathalon (responsible for many a broken left/right arrow key
required for the running competitions).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Sam Ismail wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Tim Shoppa wrote:
Here the DECATHLON I played with my first TRS-Clone , a EACA genie II
The copyright isn't by Micro$ !!
COPYRIGHT (C) 1980 BY TIMOTHY W. SMITH
ARE YOU READY TO BEGIN THE DECATHLON?
THAT PERFORMANCE WOULD BE WORTH 0000 POINTS IN THE DECATHLON.
SPEED = 99999 CM/SEC
DISTANCE= 99 M
Greetings
Fritz Chwolka
Absolutely. Applesoft BASIC (in every II+ and
later, and installed as
an option in most II's) was written by Microsoft. Microsoft also sold
several well-known Apple II games (ADVENTURE is the most well-known).
Olympic Decathalon (responsible for many a broken left/right arrow key
required for the running competitions).
Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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Ever onward.
September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2
See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
[Last web page update: 06/11/98] 
2:25 p.m.
New subject: BASIC 80 Re: Old Microsoft stuff...
At 08:08 AM 6/15/98 -0800, you wrote:
BASIC implementation for dozens of personal computers in the late 70's
and very early 80's, most importantly.
I have a brown 3 ring binder that has MicroSoft printed diagonally
across it in large white letters. The binder is labeled "BASIC-80". Inside
it has an 8 inch floppy disk that's marked "Hewlett-Packard single sided
flexible disc". Does anyone know what ssytem it's for?
Joe
7:11 a.m.
Hotze wrote:
Hi. Now, I don't want to start a flamewar, but
still, Microsoft HAS played
an important part in personal computing, for better or for worse. From 1986
or so onwards, they were a industry dominator.
Now, from what I understand, the origional MS logo was GREEN? Somebody
have a picture?
Other than OS's and current Office Applications (and, of course,
Internet Explorer, which is a decent browser, and DOES have pleanty of
innovation, if you're prepared to admit it.), what did MS make? Anything
for say... the Apple II? PDP's? UN*X boxes (once again, omitting current
ports of IE 4.0)?
Microsoft did write some early game software for the 8-bit computers. I have the
original cassettes and disks, and manuals, for such programs as: Olympic
Decathlon for both the Apple and the TRS-80, a debugger for the TRS-80, a Level
III (yep) BASIC for the TRS-80 Model 1 on cassette, a version of Colossal Cave
for the TRS-80, and even a texted based application for the TRS-80 Model 1 that
I can't even remember what it is for sure right now. This last one was a _very_
early application of some sort, as I remember it only flashed Microsoft for
about an 8th of a second on the startup screen.
Anyway, they did do some early stuff that was fairly decent before they (he?)
decided to play monopoly with the world of computers. :-)
CORD
Thanks,
Tim D. Hotze
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