Altair MBL source

[woodelf]

Randy McLaughlin wrote:

> From: "woodelf" <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca>
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:50 PM
>
>> Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe he decided that since he couldn't get what he thought his 
>>> software
>>> was worth that he'd lower it to the level consistent with what he was
>>> getting.  Then when he became a billionaire 50 times over, he forgot 
>>> (or
>>> forgot how) to actually start writing good software consistent with the
>>> money it was making ;)
>>>
>> Well I don't consider BASIC or other M$ products quality products in 
>> the 1st place.
>> Mr Bill is known for marketing not programing software. I think I 
>> read that productivity
>> has gone down since the 90's as you have more lost work do to 
>> computer crashes.
>
>
> I often hear peple talk about Willy boy, they assume he went to MIT or 
> some other techie school.
>
> He dropped out of Harvard school of Business.  He dropped out when he 
> figured out how to get rich not because he was stupid.
>
> He may not know much about computers or quality of products but he 
> knows how to make $.
>
> Give Willy boy his due.
>
> Just be glad he is the leader of most everything computer related and 
> not Air traffic!
>
> Having most peoples computers crash is a bother but you get to walk away!
>
> Just imagine flying across the country and in mid flight having to 
> shut everything down and re-booting or even worse having to reload the 
> airplane in mid flight.
>
Can't say "Crash the plane"  can you?
Now back to Basic and early machines had one good feature -- while not 
user freindly
you did have the advantage of having custom computer control often a 
6502 based system
that still could be in use today.