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

[bill_h <bill_h@sunsouthwest.com>]

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.

Bill
Tucson