Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Allen <gorebofh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 05:30:10PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> Mike McMullin wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:36 -0800, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 13:01 -0500, James Knott wrote:
> >>> Allen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I'm 22. I got my first computer when I was 17 / 18. I'm just good with
> >>>> history.
> >>> So, what was Bill Gates' first product (besides BS)?
> >>>
> >> I didn't know he dated Barbera Streisand.
> >>
> >> As to his first product what has he really developed from scratch ever.
> >> DOS was simply a fork of CPM and that he got cheap and exploited to the
> >> hilt.  Since then I can not think of a single scratch idea through code
> >> and release that BG ever created.  I think he is more Borg than man
> >> assimilating whatever and whoever can not stand up to him.
> > 
> >   Would Altair Basic be it?  The one that he cried about not getting all
> > of the registrations (and monies) that the thought he was entitled to?
> > 
> > 
> 
> No.  While He developed BASIC for the Altair and complained about the
> "theft", his first product was a traffic counting system called
> Traf-O-Data.  I included a URL in another note.

Ah hell, you got me here. 'I forgot about that. So that was first and then
came the ones I was talking about.

-Allen.

 
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