http://www.osnews.com/story/20361/Bill_Gates_Personal_Easter_Eggs_in_8_Bit_BASIC Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:42:45 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?332766 http://osnews.com/thread?332766 Great article! Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jptros) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?332778 http://osnews.com/thread?332778 "after he had had an argument with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel"

I would have paid to be a fly on the wall and watch Tramiel perform a "Jack Attack" on Gates.Edited 2008-10-07 13:04 UTC Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (PLan) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?332784 http://osnews.com/thread?332784 Hah! The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer was my first computer. I bought it in the spring of 1981. What a fun little box that was! Now that I see the article, I do remember the CLS9 command that brought up the word MICROSOFT! Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jon Dough) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?332803 http://osnews.com/thread?332803 BBC BASIC had the error "Silly!" returned when you tried to renumber the lines in a daft way. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (quatermass) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?332825 http://osnews.com/thread?332825 Jack of "Business is War" vs
Bill "I got IBM in my hip pocket"
equals an awesome meeting!

I wish i could have seen it too. Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Earl Colby pottinger) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?332832 http://osnews.com/thread?332832 Couldn't he of least put something that resulted in ***Microsoft Basic***, not Microsoftdor basic***?

I know space was tight, but for gawd sake man, at least try! Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AmigaRobbo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?333222 http://osnews.com/thread?333222 I was wondering the same thing, but then I realized that the message "Commodore Basic" header must have been added by Commodore AFTER Microsoft delivered the software, so we can assume Bill tested his code when it was only saying "Ready" on the top of the screen, which then would work fine.

That would explain why in later versions, Bill actually call a clear screen command before writing his easter egg.

And wow, I've just re-read my message, and I'm such a NERD. Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chiwaw) Comments