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To: ambrose
ALT-CTRL-DEL
5 posted on 01/30/2004 9:32:06 PM PST by polemikos
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To: polemikos
David Bradley, the IBM guy that wrote the code for Ctrl-Alt-Del on the original IBM down at Boca Raton, one of the 20 folks that built the original PC (10 of whom I know) just retired from IBM this last week.

My favorite thing with David was a PC event with lots of the pioneers of the PC, including him and Bill Gates on the panel. When they went to David and asked him about Ctrl-Alt-Del he said "I invented it, but Bill (Gates) made it famous." Gates didn't laugh. He didn't smile. He GLARED! After a moment of stunned silence the audience went "woooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

I loved it.

33 posted on 01/31/2004 8:59:26 PM PST by Phsstpok (often wrong, but never in doubt)
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