Given that average lead times in magazines to publication is two
months, and Gates and Allen got the January issue from the
newsstand, which is later than a subscription anyway, the Feb
issue was already at the printers' before they would have had a
chance to read the Jan issue all the way through.
> One reference says that Yates was a hardware engineer who, with
> Roberts and Jim Bybee, designed the Altair before Gates and Allen were
> on the scene. See:
> http://www.inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/weekly/aa1201
> 98.htm
>
> Another reference identifies Yates as a former Air Force officer with
> an aeronautical engineering background:
> http://ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net/reiman/03_1998.html
>
> Couldn't find anything about van Baalen, but if Yates is not Gates,
> then it is likely that van Baalen is not Allen.
>
> --Mike
>
> Michael Nadeau
> Editorial Services
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Allain" <John.Allain_at_Donnelley.InfoUSA.Com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:12 PM
> Subject: RE: Popular Computing on eBay for $150+
>
>
> >
> > >> "William Yates and Paul van Baalen"
> >
> > > Wasn't Bill Yates listed as a co-author on the
> > > original Altair article in P-E with Ed Roberts?
> >
> > To keep the thread going, yes, by recollection.
> > But anybody know these people?
> > The names sounded like aliases for (the) Bill & Paul.
> >
> > John A.
> >
> >
>
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