GW-Basic

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, John Foust wrote:

> >> The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC.
> >So, which is it?
>
> As he said, we have to ask Bill Gates.

I'll just stick with "Gee Whiz" since no one's ever heard of "Greg
Whitten" ;)

> Dr. Whitten also added in a follow-up:
>
> "I also know something about Intecolor 8001 and Compucolor II machines
> because I was Director of Software for ISC from 1978-1979.  I bought an
> ISC 8001 in Jan 77 and worked for them as a consultant in 77 and 78."

Cool, I've got both.  Maybe he can help me get them working when he's not
busy having lunch with Bill G.

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