CoCoFEST & Re: NYT on the Theft of Altair BASIC

From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Wed Sep 20 11:45:18 2000

Rumor has it that Bill Pechter may have mentioned these words:

>Well, there hasn't been a real good book on the early days of Microsoft,
>the Harvard incident, MS's buy and kill method of eliminating
>competition and inovation, etc.
>
>Seems like no one has the info or guts for the tell all book.

Guts? Sure. Hell, I'm not afraid of him. (Scott McNealy is my hero... ;-)
Info? I don't have it, and wouldn't have a clue as to where to find it...
but if I did, I'd take a crack at writing it (if, of course, I actually had
the time... ;-)

>I'd buy copies for a number of folks so they could see what MS and BG
>is really about.

Me too... Some of my close friends mention to me about my MS "opinion"
which, simply put, is (low, loud, gravelly booming voice) "Windows Sucks"
but mainly because in a computer-selling-business-environment it's not that
great to say to the general computer-buying populace, which is true and I'm
working on that.

<Soapbox>
However, for those friends who tell me "you only say that because you're
jealous" 1) don't know me very well - I'm not interested in monetary wealth
beyond comfortable living, and 2) would get the book... ahem... as we say
in the US Army - up their 3rd point of contact, just before a Size 9 Kiwi
Enema (the name taken for the type of boot polish used in the Military, not
the NZ fruit... ;-)
</Soapbox>

Anywho - back on track - just a friendly reminder that on May 5 & 6th,
2001, the Glenside Color Computer Club is holding the 10th annual "Last"
Chicago CoCoFEST in Elgin, Illinois - and I *actually* asked the time off
to go this time!!! Damn, I've wanted to go for over 15 years, and I finally
can!!! :-) :-)

For more info, email Tony Podraza - tonypodraza_at_juno.com or Brian Goers,
bgoers_at_ais.net. Website: http://members.aol.com/clubbbs/glenside

See y'all!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
Roger "Merch" Merchberger   ---   sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
Recycling is good, right???  Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig.
If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead
disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.
Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 11:45:18 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:33:20 BST