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



In article <rpvf9p$0$37nspbj$n2p@corp.supernews.com>,
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 must have been
>in '77-79 somewhere....

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).

Mark Zenier  mzenier@eskimo.com  mzenier@netcom.com  Washington State resident