Let’s say it’s the early 1980’s. You’ve just bought a Quick and Dirty
Operating System and repackaged it for IBM to include with their new
“Personal Computer” (IBM had such a revulsion for non-mainframe things
that the PC was created by the “Entry Systems Division”, which
suggested that these were things you used until you got a real computer).
You’re a hot rising software star, and hot rising software stars need dates. Which photo should you send potential soul mates?
This one?
“I’m plug and play, yo.”
Or this one?
“640K of this action should be enough for anybody, baby!”
(Thanks to Dan Dickinson for the inspiration.)
Oh, my sweet summer child, do you not know about the “Loofah Code” in The…
...and by that, I mean, being completely ignorant of the larger world outside the U.S.…
Wednesday, August 7, 1991: A sunny day at Toronto’s CNE Grandstand, and what a lineup:…
The cover painting says it all.
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All geeks start looking good after a couple of billion dollars.
What's with the Mac in the second picture? After a hard day of ripping of Apple's ideas, Bill Gates is ready for some action?
haha. Ohhh...ha.
Well isn't he just too cool for school!
Considering that I'm guessing this photo is probably circa 1985, that's very likely either a 128K or a 512K Mac. Micro
sithsoft made software back in the day for the early Macs. This was pre-Windows and pre-Apple lawsuit.You can see it in the first picture too. At least the edges of it.
It must be said...
Are these real?
wow, without those glasses Gates has some serious 'bedroom eyes"
Ya, wouldn't the monitors have those lines going across them? How was airbrushing technology back then?
i doubt they had digital camera quality back in 1985
Doesn't happen with cameras as long as the exposure is at a long enough time, it happens in film due to the short exposure length not coinciding with the image on screen.