Re: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues, 1985-1986

[Charles Richmond <richmond@plano.net>]

bill_h wrote:
> 
> Mark Zenier wrote:
> 
> > Bob Headrick <bobh@proaxis.com> wrote:
> 
> > >I would really like to find the issue of Popular Electronics where Bill
> > >Gates (or was it Paul Allen?) was bitterly complaining in a letter to the
> > >editor that so many people had pirated their Microsoft Basic that their
> > >effort in developing it only amounted to $2.00 per hour.
> 
> > It was an open letter that most of the magazines of the time printed.
> > I think it was in both Byte and SCCS Interface (which later became Interface Age).
> 
> It was first published in the MITS in-house newsletter/magazine,
>  'Computer Notes'. Can't remember which issue. Aug '76 I think?
> 
> 'Computer Notes' carried many articles by Gates and Allen in those
>  days. The editor, David Bunnel, later went off and started PC Magazine.
> 
Yup...some of this info was in _Hackers_, by Steven Levy.  If you want to read
the text of the letter (with *maybe* a typo or two), go to:

		http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html

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