Comments on: Albuquerque extols its role in PC revolution

This city played an integral role in computer history, even though it eventually lost out when it came to housing Microsoft.
Photos: Albuquerque's PC roots

[fred dunn]

I Still Have My Copy Of Jan '75 Popular Eelctronics...

And many more. It was an exciting period that today's youth wouldn't appreciate as much as we did. Hand coding in machine code was the rule of the day and if you had 4KB of static ram in your system you were on the top. Along with a surplus Teletype ASR33 with paper tape punch and reader you were in nirvana.
Today more power exists in a handheld calculator or any most other appliances.
We have come a long way since then but now the excitement of building your own from components is long gone except for the Microcontroller builders out there and even there most of the periphery that we used to have to bus together is incorporated into a single chip.
Many of us "older" geeks appreciate the success of the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the "Woz" and thank them for their contributions, not to mention Intel and their 4004 chip which started it all.

[cephalis]

Not so!

Why don't you give credit for creating BASIC where it is due? Not Bill Gates but some long forgotten professor at Dartmouth, who couldn't be bothered with copyrighting it. Gates has never invented squat, his only talents are in buying the creations of others at bargain prices and in hiring excellent lawyers.

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Read again....

Hi didn't say Bill invented BASIC - he said they wrote the *Altair* version of BASIC.