Saved Altair 4K BASIC

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_freegate.com>
Date: Tue Nov 10 17:27:47 1998

At 12:25 PM 11/10/98 -0800, Sam wrote:
>Sheesh! No wonder nobody paid for the stuff. These are bloated prices,
>especially in 1976 dollars.

The funny thing is, in 1978 I attended a trade show/conference called
PerComp '78 in Long Beach California looking for an 8K BASIC for my Digital
Group Z80 system. I talked to Bill, who was there selling BASIC at these
ridiculous (to me) prices. He told me that Micro-soft didn't have a version
of BASIC for my system. He went further however, and suggested that if I
wanted to come work for him he would pay me with the royalties generated by
the sale of my version.

Needless to say I figured anyone who was trying to sell BASIC (which I
figured I could write on my own in about 3 months) for more than a third
what I paid for my complete computer was not going to be around long enough
for me to collect any royalties...

--Chuck
Received on Tue Nov 10 1998 - 17:27:47 GMT