Posted on 09/03/2018 3:53:18 AM PDT by DFG
Glad to hear it.
$100,000? He must have cleaned under the couch cushions.
Surprising
My guess: he’s afraid the left has gone deep psychotic, and is hellbent on destroying the Constitution.
I remember CP/M on a Digital mini-computer, mini being relative to their mid-size systems.
I am not sure what computer he used but it needed to have some sort of Z8086 architecture, else it wouldn’t work on an IBM micro.
What? They were scraping by doing little programming odd jobs barely getting by. They had little money. Gates III parents were affluent and supported him and in turn, Gates III helped support Allen as in making sure he had a hotel room and takeout.
When they did the meeting with IBM over microcomputers, IBM didn’t know what the hell they were doing in the microcomputer space other than Xerox was diving into it and they needed to keep up with the Jones.
The only reason Gates III got the meeting with IBM was because of his mother. The name Microsoft was unknown, a moniker for a 2-man shop, one who was the son of an IBM exec.
The $50k came from somewhere, likely an investor. I have lived in Seattle to know the investment community. $50k is nothing for an investor to put into a startup, especially one that is vying for a contract with IBM and who is the son of an IBM exec. It’s a no-brainer.
Yes, stand corrected. But Allen visited Gates at Harvard as both were boyhood chums. When Gates would come home to Seattle, the two were always together as nerds drawn to the latest geek craze of the day.
The point is that Wall St. created an investment myth for mutual funds and the like, invest in nerd dropouts who know how to geek.
That one in the middle was the box used for the first programming job I took on using CP/M. The business had spent $7000 for it.
Don’t know what happened to Digital Research in the years after. I imagine they got clobbered by IBM clones flooding the space at about $2000 a pop with 64k RAM and such.
Who is this “Gates III” you keep referring to?
Do you mean, Bill Gates? If so, why not just call him by the name everyone recognizes?
Bill Gates the founder of Microsoft is William Henry Gates III. Look it up.
> “Not quite. Gates was every bit as good a programmer as Allen, if not better. Steve Jobs was no programmer.”
Yes, early on Gates was a good programmer but as all startups end up having to grapple with division of labor, Gates became the marketer, the promoter, on the phone all the time. His programming activity fell off and the bulk of the programming was left to Allen with Gates giving directions on what the customers were looking for.
By the time Gates had the chance meeting with IBM and had lied to say they had the product when they didn’t, Gates left it to Allen to do the assembly language coding to get the programming product ready for the meeting while Gates worked out the contract approach and parameters of what they wanted from IBM. Gates was a BASIC programmer with barely enough time to get a handle on Assembly language.
That’s why Microsoft would not exist without Allen. Gates did not have the time to be dishwasher, bottle brusher, busboy, cook, and waiter.
Jobs was technical enough to add, alter top level coding targets according to Wozniak. He was capable to be a programmer but fell into the startup groove of leaving coding to those that need to be closed up in a room with very little distraction.
Both Jobs and Gates fell into their roles by necessity and those roles were to pitch people about the tech. They became salesmen, marketers, promoters.
Fair enough, but calling him "Bill III" doesn't help the reader understand who it is you're referring to.
Not a criticism - just an observation.
Many err and call him Bill Gates II.
His father Gates II is active in politics and is dumber than a democrat running to abolish ICE.
Because so many address him erroneously as Bill Gates II, I aim to correct people just like you by referring to him as Gates III.
Let’s just say, they were both essential to the creation and making of Microsoft. After all, it was Paul Allen who first saw the cover of “Popular Electronics”with the MITS Aktair on the cover and rushed to tell Gates about it, leading to them calling Ed Roberts.
I've never referred to Bill Gates as "Bill Gates II", nor have I ever noticed anyone else refer to him that way.
I'm pretty sure that 99% of the planet just calls him Bill Gates.
My bad, I saw your #50 “Do you mean, Bill Gates? If “ and the eyesight read Do you mean, Bill Gates? II.
Others have often referred him in the press as Gates II confusing him with his father, hence my calling him Gates III. It’s not a big enough issue to argue further.
Nice detail. Allen is not called a ‘Co-Founder’ for no good reason.
I can add that from a regional perspective here in Seattle, Allen has done wonders for the City, from the Cancer Center, to the University, to developing and upgrading the South Lake Union area and parks, parks, parks. Seattle is more livable because of his contributions. Bezos, on the other hand, has done squat and the Gates Foundation incurs the wrath of the local populace because they have a mountain of funds and haven’t benefited even a preschool in the area.
Gates, however, did in the early 2000s fund a systems biology group at the University but withheld from surgeons looking for new tech development to advance their craft. In that case, it boiled down t personalities.
Gates, a once independent now liberal does very little for the region that gave him so much.
Besos. a CIA kid, CIA-funded CIA Cloud Servicer, and CIA purchase agent for CIA propaganda assets such as WAPO, has done practically zero for the region.
Whereas Allen, an independent and now republican leaning donor, has created numerous, too many to list, tangible benefits and developments for the region that residents can see, touch, feel and feel proud of.
Thanks. We're just shooting the breeze here anyway. I can get stuck on insignificant trivia at times.
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