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Re: Pirates of Silicon Valley
>How did Apple get a copyright from Microsoft
>for Applesoft basic. On my //c (march 1984 / pre mac) there is a microsoft
>registration marker. The show made it sound like Apple didn't even deal with
>Microsoft until the Mac.
>
The part when the morning after Gates ran the bulldozer into Paul Allen's
Corvair, he was talking about Apple's offer of $21K to license a version of
Microsoft's BASIC to them. I took this was for Applesoft.
Larry :)