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Re: The Palo Alto Tea Party




On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:

> > they actually did. Microsoft's very first product was BASIC for an Altair
> > 8080. Bill and Paul wrote it on an Emulator they wrote on a PDP machine.
> 
> On a PDP machine running UNIX perhaps ? <vbg>

not sure, I think it was whatever version of DEC OS before VMS.
 
> > they printed it on a roll of punched paper and flew to texas to demo it,
> > since no Altair machines were yet available in the market, and the very
> > first demo went perfectly fine, even though it was actually also the very
> > first time they ran it on a real Altair.
> 
> Any non-company member witnesses ? <g>

"Flew to texas to demo it" meaning demoing it to the Altair people, who
until that day only programmed the thing in Machine language.


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