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[AMPS] Care and Feeding of fragile egos

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Subject: [AMPS] Care and Feeding of fragile egos
From: randyd@specent.com (Randall D. DuCharme)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 22:45:49 -0600
Radio WC6W wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 10:51:52 -0800 "J. Bradshaw" <ac6tk@cybertime.net>
> writes:
> 
> >As I remember, Bill Gates never did complete his university degree, he
> > dropped out to present an operating system called Disk Operating
> >System to IBM which was developing a device called a Personal Computer.
> 
>    Just for historical accuracy...
> 
>    Bill dropped out of school to co-author a Basic interpreter for the
> Altair system in... 1975 or thereabouts.

This is true, but I'm forced to wonder... had he finished school, would
Windows be something different than it is today? :-)

> Abort, Retry, Fail,

There IS a better mousetrap!  :-)


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