Bill Gates Celebrates 50 years of Microsoft with Altair BASIC Source Code
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One thing for which they’ll never release the code … MS Bob.
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We could create MS Bob malware! Oh wait, it was already malware.
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If he wrote the book to help teachers, he did good.
If he wrote it just for money... pfft.
If he wrote it just for money... pfft.
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I had to get a restraining order against his ex wife. But nah, he never shares that.
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Conveniently, she was the marketing manager for Bob.
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True story: Bill's grandmother used early Hotmail. If her account stopped working, someone had to fix it ASAP.
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Bill Gates is bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it, there seems to be no middle ground.
but i have to add Windows 95 brought an operating system to the masses and created a home computer market worldwide.
in doing so Bill Gates made a massive fortune.
best of luck, Steve ..
but i have to add Windows 95 brought an operating system to the masses and created a home computer market worldwide.
in doing so Bill Gates made a massive fortune.
best of luck, Steve ..
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Bill was small millionaire until IBM came looking for a PC-based OS. IBM really wanted to license Digital Research's CP/M, but for whatever the true story was, didn't. Instead Bill promised them a CP/M clone, purchased someone else's pre-made OS, updated it and relicensed it back to IBM.
The smart trick was it a non-exclusive agreement, allowing him to sell "DOS" to other PC companies that appeared after IBM. Which made him a big billionaire in the long run. Otherwise MS would be this medium software company peddling BASIC and a terrible spreadsheet...
The smart trick was it a non-exclusive agreement, allowing him to sell "DOS" to other PC companies that appeared after IBM. Which made him a big billionaire in the long run. Otherwise MS would be this medium software company peddling BASIC and a terrible spreadsheet...
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Really?
Well, especially for you, B-Man, here’s an hour of tedious Bob video.
This includes (in Vid 2 @ 2min 30sec) the mention of the Microsoft Bob email service that only allowed you to send 15 emails per month, max of 5000 characters per email, at a cost of $5 a month. WHAT A BARGIN!!!
MICROSOFT BOB EMAIL:
58,000: Copies of Bob sold
Other interesting facts:
www.technologizer.com
Bill on Bob.
(Yeah I know what it sounds like)
Well, especially for you, B-Man, here’s an hour of tedious Bob video.
This includes (in Vid 2 @ 2min 30sec) the mention of the Microsoft Bob email service that only allowed you to send 15 emails per month, max of 5000 characters per email, at a cost of $5 a month. WHAT A BARGIN!!!
MICROSOFT BOB EMAIL:
58,000: Copies of Bob sold
- $99: Cost of Bob
- $4.95: Monthly cost of Bob’s email service
- 15: Emails included in the monthly cost
- $0.15-$0.30: Cost of additional emails
- 8 megabytes: Random-access memory required to run Bob
- $800: Cost of 8 MB of RAM circa 1995
- 12: Number of animated guides in Bob
- 15%: Share of Americans with internet access in 1995
- 42%: Share of Americans who hadn’t heard of the internet in 1995
Other interesting facts:
The Bob Chronicles
What's the most efficient way to deride a technology product as a stinker and/or a flop? Easy: Compare it to Microsoft Bob. Bring up the infamous Windows 3.1 front-end for computing newbies--officially released fifteen years ago this week, on March 31st, 1995--and you need say no more. Everything fr
Bill on Bob.
(Yeah I know what it sounds like)
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It's fair to say that government support has been there for everyone: Amazon, Space X...
But unlike Musk, Zuckerberg, etc., he's far from stupid.
But unlike Musk, Zuckerberg, etc., he's far from stupid.
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