Does Bill Gates know how to program? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

20 Sep 1998

Hmmm...a BROTHER running GEOS, by any chance?
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  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
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 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
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 Model 100,
but with a GUI, No floppy drive, just memory storage, and a serial plug  to
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 Up load the data..
It was not a pocket type, but a lap top size computer. Priced at  $299.00
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 (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

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