Topic: This is Bill Gates' first Microsoft business card
Anonymous A started this discussion 7 years ago #77,995
Pretty cool!Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 6 minutes later[^] [v] #911,525
What do you think about the font?
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 7 years ago, 3 minutes later, 9 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #911,526
@previous (B)
I found the image in some article talking about how Souvenir was the Comic Sans of the 1970s. I don't really mind it though!
I found the image in some article talking about how Souvenir was the Comic Sans of the 1970s. I don't really mind it though!
Anonymous B replied with this 7 years ago, 12 minutes later, 22 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #911,527
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> This is, after all, the typeface that the book text of Choose Your Own Adventure novels was set in, of early Dungeons and Dragons manuals...
I knew I'd seen that somewhere before!
> This is, after all, the typeface that the book text of Choose Your Own Adventure novels was set in, of early Dungeons and Dragons manuals...
I knew I'd seen that somewhere before!
MR MIKE PENCE joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 5 hours later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #911,544
Is there a pic of the current one??
q. joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 2 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #911,564
why the hell were they in albuquerque
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 23 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^] [v] #911,565
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Web says.
MITS was located in Albuquerque so Gates moved there for the work
I bought one via an ad in a magazine. Months later it arrived NOT working. Shipping caused a short circuit on the power buss. 4K memory and to code it, it used a row of toggle switches which took forever and more and unless one followed the rule - right down the code - Input the code one toggle at a time and check it off the list - anyway not one of my friends was impressed with the tasks I put it to.
Web says.
Gates and Allen later lived at the Sundowner Motel when they wrote a version of the programming language BASIC for the Altair 8800 computer, invented in 1975 by the Albuquerque-based company MITS. The motel was used as a base camp in the mid-1970s before the pair moved Microsoft to the Seattle-area.
MITS was located in Albuquerque so Gates moved there for the work
I bought one via an ad in a magazine. Months later it arrived NOT working. Shipping caused a short circuit on the power buss. 4K memory and to code it, it used a row of toggle switches which took forever and more and unless one followed the rule - right down the code - Input the code one toggle at a time and check it off the list - anyway not one of my friends was impressed with the tasks I put it to.
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Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 9 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #911,567
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They would be kicked out of the hotel on the first night had their scheme been tried in 2018.
They would be kicked out of the hotel on the first night had their scheme been tried in 2018.
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I am responding to the visual impression that the 1970s red/orange/yellow scheme put into me
I am responding to the visual impression that the 1970s red/orange/yellow scheme put into me
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Sheila LaBoof replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #911,927
Here's a Navajo (of Arizona) blanket that the business card is reminiscent of, what they call the southwestern look.Sheila LaBoof double-posted this 7 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #911,928
Here is a "southwestern bedroom".Anonymous I replied with this 7 years ago, 9 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,029
Thank You Wikipedia replied with this 7 years ago, 13 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,037
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After Gates read the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, which demonstrated the Altair 8800, he contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico. Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.
Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90 percent of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and by doing so the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for any professional developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software. This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems. The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.
During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, according to Bill Gates' own claims, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, according to Bill Gates' own claims, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 7 years ago, 27 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,040
and yet the word-wrap bug introduced in Windows XP's Notepad persists to this day.
Anonymous H replied with this 7 years ago, 17 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,043
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Odd thing about that. 1000's of companies use Notepad to copypaste raw data from raw test data and upload to a server where others upload their raw data and coders have no problem parsing that data for a quality output.
Never occured to me to ask how they have no problem with the bug.
Odd thing about that. 1000's of companies use Notepad to copypaste raw data from raw test data and upload to a server where others upload their raw data and coders have no problem parsing that data for a quality output.
Never occured to me to ask how they have no problem with the bug.
Sheila LaBoof replied with this 7 years ago, 22 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,045
Well, if a person avoids doing a save of the same text file after opening it, the bug does not show itself.
Also, if the word wrap feature is never turned on in the first place, then saving does not trigger the bug.
Also, if the word wrap feature is never turned on in the first place, then saving does not trigger the bug.
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Anonymous I replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,059
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After Gates read the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, which demonstrated the Altair 8800, he contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), the creators of the new microcomputer, to inform them that he and others were working on a BASIC interpreter for the platform. In reality, Gates and Allen did not have an Altair and had not written code for it; they merely wanted to gauge MITS's interest. MITS president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo, and over the course of a few weeks they developed an Altair emulator that ran on a minicomputer, and then the BASIC interpreter. The demonstration, held at MITS's offices in Albuquerque, was a success and resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the interpreter as Altair BASIC. Paul Allen was hired into MITS, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with Allen at MITS in Albuquerque in November 1975. They named their partnership "Micro-Soft" and had their first office located in Albuquerque. Within a year, the hyphen was dropped, and on November 26, 1976, the trade name "Microsoft" was registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico. Gates never returned to Harvard to complete his studies.
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Gates discovered that a pre-market copy had leaked into the community and was being widely copied and distributed. In February 1976, Gates wrote an Open Letter to Hobbyists in the MITS newsletter in which he asserted that more than 90 percent of the users of Microsoft Altair BASIC had not paid Microsoft for it and by doing so the Altair "hobby market" was in danger of eliminating the incentive for any professional developers to produce, distribute, and maintain high-quality software. This letter was unpopular with many computer hobbyists, but Gates persisted in his belief that software developers should be able to demand payment. Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems. The company moved from Albuquerque to its new home in Bellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.
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> During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, according to Bill Gates' own claims, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
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> During Microsoft's early years, all employees had broad responsibility for the company's business. Gates oversaw the business details, but continued to write code as well. In the first five years, according to Bill Gates' own claims, he personally reviewed every line of code the company shipped, and often rewrote parts of it as he saw fit.
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Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 7 years ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #912,076
Fake n gay his name is bill not will