Altair MBL source

Richard A. Cini rcini at optonline.net
Mon Apr 18 20:39:41 CDT 2005


I've paid thousands of dollars in the M$ tax over the years so he owes me.
This time, the stuff I got was all non-Microsoft.

I do love that "Letter to the Editor" whining piece he did. Soooo classic.
Soooo prescient.


-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Vintage Computer
Festival
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:07 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Altair MBL source


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 rcini at optonline.net wrote:

>   I was able to get binary copies of some Altair paper tapes but none of
> them came with manuals. I believe that they can be loaded with the
> Altair Multi-Boot Loader, which I do not have.

Did you pay a license fee to Bill Gates?  If not, he might get very angry
with you and post a long diatribe to the CC list about how software
pirates are a hurting good software developers.

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and
deluge the hobby market with good software."*

Hahahaha.

* http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/gateswhine.html

--

Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer
Festival
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
International Man of Intrigue and Danger
http://www.vintage.org

[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage
mputers   ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at
ttp://marketplace.vintage.org  ]



More information about the cctalk mailing list