WTF?

From: Bill Sheehan <sheehan_at_switchboardmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 21 12:53:04 1999

I haven't seen the program yet, but Gate's first product was
"Traf-O-Data."



On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Kai Kaltenbach wrote:

> That was the traffic signal control system they wrote software for before
> they got the MITS contract. They mumble its name briefly in the dialogue.
> "TrafficNet" or something, I forget.
>
> Kai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LordTyran [mailto:a2k_at_one.net]
> Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 5:18 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: WTF?
>
>
> I'm watching Pirates of Silicon Valley on TNT right now (yes, I'm so lame
> I have my computer in front of the television) and Bill Gates is working
> on a box... the dialogue infers that it is supposed to by an Altair,
> but it's just a big box with four blinking lights (alternates - 2 red,
> 2 green) and reading paper tape.... next scene he's working on a PDP-8/?
> (I I think, but I'm not up on my PDPs... not so much working on it as
> having the machine open on his table... no soldering iron, manuals,
> cards... I could have made the scene a lot better with the stuff in my
> basement...)
>
> Oh well.
>
> Kevin
>
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