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RE: The Palo Alto Tea Party



> > > > 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.
> 
	Someone wrote one of this days that this is a legend, the thing
really took one week of debugging by Paul Allen.  Since I've never seen any
eye witness quoted on it, I tend to believe it's really only a legend,
nothing more...

Leandro.