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Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine
So normally I resist the temptation to post this sort of thing because it just seems like a cheap shot, but
I just can't hold back on this one, so
Bill, if you're reading this (ya right ;) I'm sorry, but I just have to share this one. And I hope in 2021 I'm a billionaire and people are posting my yearbook pictures to take cheap shots at me too! Anyway,
We recently found pictures of a photo spread Mr. Gates did in 1983 for Teen Beat magazine. Enjoy.
Somebody's been /.-ed
I, for one, welcome our homoerotic, pie-eyed, playful floppy-disk tossing Overlord.
Mirror of Gates Images
I Want To Believe
Nothing to see here.
Bill G.
For once I don't think I'd get upset if Bill Gate's swarm of lawyers issued a take-down notice.
III.IIVIVIXIIVIVIIIVVIIIIXVIIIXIIIIIIIIVIIIIVVIII
It's probably about time that /. considered mirroring content they link to. It's already down!
All that I can tell by looking at those photos is that there was a helluva lot better pot in 1983 than there is now.
OMFG
Those are awesome. Seriously.
In a continuation of the seriousness: any one else thinks he looks a little light in the loafers?
Next time change your site to not use dynamic controls before posting it to slashdot.
..well, not really.
And here I thought *I* wasn't photogenic.
At least its Gates in the picture, and not Balmer. I'm afraid of what he'd be doing ( ... more monkey dancing?)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
what he would become. They all probably thought "yeah we can have a little startup software company"
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This takes geek sheik to a whole new low
Let's get one thing perfectly clear, I did not vote for George W Bush, and I do not endorse what he does or says.
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There seems to be a Mac 128k in the background. Wasn't that released in 1984? How could these have been taken in 1983?
Looks like he just finished a dooby! Far out Bill!
This is going to take vodka. A LOT OF VODKA to get the images out of my mind. I hate you CmdrTaco. I hate you. Sincerely.
Free XBox, PS2
Please don't hold back. It's so unusual to see Gates bashing on Slashdot. I think I'd enjoy the change of pace.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
or did he look like some sort of serial killer/mad man to everyone else? Especially in that second photograph... ::shudders::
Mirror (seems to work):
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b45b564dd93222fa
http://www.mirrordot.com/stories/b45b564dd93222faa 7fc0335836835d1/index.html
Be warned... do you really want to see it? :P
The "Insert Quote Here" line is almost as predictable as inserting an actual quote.
Seriously? What was the article about? How in god's name can you justify having pictures like that?
He is posing like he wants to be wearing a bikini. I can hear him being told to "make love to the camera".
This seems to have got the images: MirrorDot
SASSY!
this one should be a no-brainer by now:
Linking to a Bulletin-Board with pictures is a 'Bad Thing' (tm).
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
1983: Tiger Beat 2005: Beaten by Tiger
Here's the mirrordot location (shows the pictures).
What happens if Slashdot puts a link to mirrordot? Will mirrordot mirror itself?
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
Ah yes...excellent memory. I'd forgotten that whole story line. Thanks
God Malda can you not attibute anything properly? You either heard this from a friend who pulled it from the first blog to list it, or you saw it on one of the more popular sites such as gizmodo, but you, and the other site admins, the "we" portion of your writeup didn't find anything.
--- I do not moderate.
Huh... I always assumed he had a 3-1/2, not a 5-1/4. Must be Ballmer I'm thinking of?
Hah!
Jesus Christ! not so floppy!
Not a chance that's him. Doesn't look enough like other pics I've seen. I could be wrong, bu I would say its a look-a-like.
-dave
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panting
Now that I've gotten that out of my system I was wondering how many others are disturbed that there is a photospread of Billy boy?
Slashdotted already, so I'll waste some time while I wait by creating the first post ...
Try here.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination
- Douglas Adams
here
...ever BSoD in the background?
News for Nerds. Evilness that matters
did anyone else notice the mac in the background?
I'm sure he was just using it for 'research'
besides that, these are some pretty hot photos of mr. gates
Creationists are a lot like zombies. Slow, but powerful and numerous. And they all want to eat our brains.
Also, look at his eyes, Bill Gates should definately lay off the pipe. Crack kills!
I've hit Karma 50 and gotten a Score:5, Troll... I win!
On the left machine in the back he was coding windows1.0
:-)
The right machine was his inspiration
a friend of mine made a coaster out of it...
Fark PhotoShop contest!
A logo made of those would be funny, not dumb like the bill borg.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
The Macintosh came out in 1984, and Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. Both of these are in the photos.
...there went my lunch.
And how did I know that he was going to be wearing a sweater? Man, the 1980's were BAD..!
THEY DO NOTHING!
It looks like their an origianl developement Mac 128k in the corner of the desk. Possibly for working on / testing the first versions of MacWrite?
Mein eyes! Ze goggles do nothing!
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
Am I the first to notice his extended middle finger in the 2nd photo? Just before that photo was taken Bill was asked: "So, how would you best describe your attitude towards your customers?"
My favorite is this quote from Bill Gates:
"To create a new standard takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and captures people's imaginations. Macintosh meets that standard."
- Bill Gates, Chairman of the Board & CEO Microsoft Corporation
While you're at it, check out the real article CmdrTaco found this photo at. Much more informative and interesting read.
I only came here to do two things; kick some ass, and drink some beer...looks like we're almost out of beer.
Do You have permission to post this copy-righted image?
Remember.. dont be a pirate.
I wish someone would have...
Socialism: A feeling of discontent and resentment caused by a desire for the possessions or qualities of another.
AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
What kind of warped photographer could take those pictures without vomiting? Seriously... what the hell was that? What was Bill thinking?
This whole concept confuses and disgusts me... but it is funny.
I don't think this is Bill Gates. I think this is a mock-up, with someone who looks a bit like him.
and we have allready slashdotted the server.
How long before the Linux crowd counters with a photo spread of a young Linus?
I so wished I *DIDN'T* RTFA. :(
I need to go home and shower now.
AirSpeak - http://itunes.com/apps/AirSpeak
Poor guy, bags and circles under his eyes as he so coquettishly poses, the next girly heartthrob hard at work building his empire of evil. We all can grow up to do great things, kids, look at these pictures and remember that.
Photo spread
He wants your cack.
We have secretly replaced these Slashdot mods' sense of humor with a rusty nail. Let's see if they notice!!
Here
only found pics in cache not the page.
Wang
PAGERANK++ Robsell.com
a replacement for goatse! :P
Adore and idolize those at the top of the social hierarchy!
TigerBeat =~ Slashdot;
eat shiat and bark at the moon
So this is where Donatella got the inspiration for the latest Versace ads!!! Sexy poses on an office setting! :P
http://www.madonna-online.ch/m-online/news/pix/ver sace-05_001.jpg
Or perhaps Bananas. Kind of a let down to know he was in Teen Beat.
about take-down notices, the news itself attracts endless swarms of nerds willing to see the pictures and thus a-bombing the sites themselves.
Geez, with those shadows under his eyes, he looks like he's been pulling an all-nighter... a 72-hour all-nighter! They couldn't have sent a make-up person along with the photographer?
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... has been slashdotted.
Damn, I already moderated this topic. Now I'll have to log in with my sock puppet to comment.
I've been chased by M$ a couple times in my life, and I've collected some pretty interesting things I think I should post...
1) Microsoft Mug circa 1986 - "One company does it all."
2) Microsoft Employment Package circa 1991 - first page bio of Bill touts the fact he was a drop out but succeeded anyway...
/\/\icro/\/\uncher
Gizmodo
And dude...HIT THE SHOWERS!!! Dear sweet Goddess, Billy-boy looks like he was on one of his legendary "haven't showered in weeks and I feel fine" jags. RMS has NOTHING on Gates before he got married. Both he and Paul Allen were legendary for their lack of hygiene.
:P
Anthony Michael Hall looked way better in "Pirates of Silicon Valley" than the genuine article looked IRL!
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Too late now, girls!
I'm sure every girl on his school/university had the chance to go out with him.
But you refused. You decided to go out with Football players and the like.
Now who's the billionaire?!?!
Next time, think twice when you're thinking with whom to go out...
I don't need a signature.
Cmon, did you HAVE to post this an hour before Lunch???
Think of the Children CmdrTaco! What about the children?
Sig it.
I nearly choked on my coffee when I read that... not sprayed it on my monitor... choked. I'm still trying to get my brain to recover from the sheer concept of it. The image was not pretty.
As for why Tiger Beat? Who knows, maybe someone found him sexy back then... or thought of him as some kind of yuppie geek who was on the rise.
OCO is Loco
These are NOT a "Teen Beat" magazine photoshoot.
These are pictures of mr. Gates POSING LIKE models usually pose for "Teen Beat". I mean, like, learn to read.
Tsk.
I'm trying to find them but google image search just gives me 90000000 pages of him just standing at the podium announcing iPods. I've seen them though. Woz trying to look sexy is the most hilarious thing I've ever seen.
IIRC, Jobs and Woz were featured in the same article that these Gates' pictures came from. It was some crap about these young folks who were becoming crazy rich messing with all this new computer stuff.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Que needed soundtrack for this, along the lines of Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra...
"Hey baby..."
shudder
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The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
Why is he saying, "We found"...?
/. did some serious investigative journalism on this one?!?!
This has been all over every OTHER site in the world..why not say, "as seen on Blue's News" or something of the sort instead of trying to make it sound like
Oh wait. Did I just say "Slashdot", "serious", and "journalism" in the same sentence? Wait, come back...quit laughing...
-JT
Hey everyone... I've mirrored just the images here, if anyone would like them:
billg-teenbeat1.jpg
billg-teenbeat2.jpg
Enjoy!
*shiver* That's just wrong. Funny but wrong.
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~Bommers, Why did it have to be Bommers!?!
Come on man, this is slashdot. If you don't like what the editors have to say, why are you still here?
Can't beat the addiction, huh. Yeah, I know, you love slashdot but you also love to whine. There are many more like you in the same boat. Maybe we should form a SA (Slashdotaholics Anonymous) group, if one doesn't exist already...
No, I'm not going to try and google for it. I've learned to live with my addiction.
Looking closer at the second pic I can't help but realize that he's about to show us his middle finger...
he could get laid in 1983...
I'm still waiting for somebody to ask Melinda what she thinks about the direct quote from him in one of the bios about how MS can hire women for half the salary as men to do the grunt jobs "because they're only women."
OTOH, she was one of those women, and she married him, so obviously hypocrisy is one of her issues.
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Ewwwwwwwww
That's worse than that Goat Sx dude.
Where's the draino for my mind, so I can permanently clean those images from my memory.
Ewww Ewww Ewwwww Ewww
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Look at the Mac in the background of the first pic...either it's 1984, or someone at MicroSoft got a prototype for testing :-)
-JT
Bill Gates was born in 1955.
The pictures of him were taken in 1983.
Bill Gates was 28 in 1983.
The average age of the Tiger Beat reader is 13.
YUCK!
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
Excuse the blood, I had to dig my eyes out in a hurry.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
While I try to avoid the MSFT/Anti-MSFT field entirely, I can't help but have a great deal of respect for Gates circa 1983; I mean, in the photos there's this guy who's right on the brink of the greatest business success in the history of the world.
"And I hope in 2021 I'm a billionaire and people are posting my yearbook pictures to take cheap shots at me too!"
You don't have until 2021; Bill Gates was a billionaire by 1987 - only 4 years from the day those pictures were taken. So... better get at it. Time's a-wasting.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!
Because of CmdrTaco, now people have a reason to look at pr0n! (the good one, not that)
"get outta my head!!!!"
Read the rotten.com biography for a few laughs, if you haven't seen it yet. It contains a priceless mugshot of a grinning Bill when he was brought in a precinct for some kind of traffic violation 20-30 years ago.
Ooh, sexay sexay! (Not.)
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
Dreamy.
If you're g-h-e-y. And a Beatles fan. Or a girl. Or just looking for someone rich.
Someone did have a point. Macs did NOT exist in 1983. Unless Bill got a special one from Steve, this was a picture taken in early 1984.
Vos teneo officium eram periculosus ut vos recipero is.
Could this be it? gatese.cx anyone?
Ever heard of the Apple Lucy? Of course being Microsoft it very well may be a proto type. MS and Apple have worked together since the begining.
The preceding post was not a Slashvertisement.
Seriously, look at the pants! POWDER BLUE!!! This demands poster-size reproductions.
Considering MS wrote much of the software on it, your latter speculation would be the correct one.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Woulda loved to look, but it got /.'d anyone got a mirror that works?
A couple fans told me that my last journal entry was mint; give it a shot. Hope you like.
and I know I'll be modded down to hell, but don't you think that in these photos Gates looks almost... sexy?!?
So he is either stoned out of his mind or hasn't gotten sleep in about three days. Man look at the dark redness around his eyes. I have seen racoons with lighter shades.
I mod down so you can mod up. Your welcome.
gatese.cx in the making after having seen this pictures.
"Slashdot - the one place on the internet where guys brag about how small it is." - that IT girl
Did you notice in those photos from your linked article that the font in the Apple ads is identical to the one they still use today? wow.
He could use a little sleep in those pictures I think.
Here's a spread Britney Spears did (may not be safe for work, depending on where you are).
For those not turned on by Billy Gates.
It doesn't seem likely that Microsoft would violate the NDA by taking a picture of the prerelease Mac.
You think these pics of Gates are disturning, I've managed to dig up some "photos" Woz did for Hustler Mag back in 1986. And yes, I am still trying to get the image of man-boobs outta my head all these years later....
While we are on the topic of pics of Bill Gates, has anyone else seen his mug shots?
Back in those days Apple was begging people to look at their stuff. The last thing they would have done is complain about some free publicity.
Besides, noone in 1983 would have looked and said "oh wow it's the new model of the Macintosh computer that doesn't even exist". It just looks like another of the million boxes that were competing for the new home computing market at the time. Noone would know it from a TRS-80 or Coleco Adam.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
...is here.
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I guess sex does sell software, even if it's done by a very thin, nerding looking little boy in a knit sweater and khakis.
Even Bill said that the Mac was the best computer, or some such at one time back in the 80's I'm sure the video is still on the internet. It's fun to watch with all the catcalls and hooting going on in the background, perhaps not as entertaining as Ballmer's Monkey-boy Dance.
What nobody seemed to take seriously at the time was that Gates & Co. would basically rip off the Gui ideas of the Mac and profit wildly from them. Apple should have learned from IBM, you don't give Gates an inch!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Did an interview on Belgian TV a year ago where he got plenty of time to discuss his ideas. VERY disappointing. He didn't say ANYTHING that couldn't have been said by a junior trainee sales manager. We are great, and we have great products and great people blahblahblah... C'mon, the guy is a billionaire. His software sucks bollocks but he is probably the biggest businessman of the last 100 years. When will he stop worrying about his shares and start thinking about his place in the history books?
10 ?"Hello World" life was simple then
If you look at the three monitors in the pictures, you'll see they ALL have blue screens. This must have been the moment of inspiration for the Blue Screen of Death. It was that common that they had to implement it as a feature of the OS. That way he could explain it as an 'innovative' feature. Of course, in the first picture he looks like he's strung out on a weekend party binge.
This must have been in the 'early' days. The microsoft manual on the desk in front of him hs about four pages in a 2-1/2 binder.
Oh, and the large floppy he's tossing in the second picture, I wonder what is on that! Maybe destroying evidence of their source code - ummm I mean Apple OS.
Oh No Mr. Bill!
Poor poor Bill.
Never try to beat a professional at his own game!
Here's another site that has the pictures on it.
Slashdot and it's hive-minds are obsessed with this man.
Or....
Gates should invent a high-powered laser rifle. Then he could eviscerate anyone who used this picture.
Both suggestions have the same likelihood of occurring.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
You watched it! You can't unwatch it!
Thats not bill gates dude .. thats some retarted model advertising microsoft... It kinda implies "Even a retarted guy like me can use that monitor because its got microsoft imprinted"
duh!
#3 pencils and quadrille pads.
Bill Gates is the founder of Corbis...along with having investments in a lot of other companies.
Actually, that looks like a Mac in the background - those pics may not be from 1983 at all but from... 1984! Yet another hideous slashdot innacuracy
Not really, Microsoft has always been developing software for Mac OS, you know. It makes kind of sense. Back in the days, they were actually pretty close...
Though it has been "rumored" that the GUI of Mac OS inspired the MS people to look more into this whole Icons & Windows thing. *cough* (Though I really think that it would have been catastrophic to overall industry progress if the GUI idea had been legally restricted to only one company.)
I was just looking around the web and found out that the picture really comes from newsweek. Still not sure what issue it was, but I think with a little more looking I could find it. So this just puts to rest the thoughts in everyone's mind that there were little 13 year old girls ogling at the billionaire to be.
Xeonon
Back in 1983, you could count the producers of consumer microcomputers on one hand. Then you could use the other hand to list available models. Each would be very distinct and easy to identify. Anybody in the industry with a keen enough eye would have noted that something unidentified and new was lurking in the background.
Having said that - I doubt anyone would have given it a second thought. And, as you noted, Apple would probably enjoy the attention.
Highlyt doubtful. DOS had no BSOD. That is a Windows thing. This was 1983, there was no Windows.
I reject your reality
We ought to have a showdown of the most-embarrassing Teen Beat photo spreads ever: a grand competition of cheesy photos to end all such grand competitions. We can call it...
...wait for it...
The Teen Beat-Off
(I apologize for that, really I do. No, I don't.)
Actually, that looks like a Mac in the background - those pics may not be from 1983 at all but from... 1984!
Bill Gates had early access to Macs. Maybe it was 1983 after all?
Mike van Lammeren
It will challenge your head, your brain, and your mind.
Somewhere, deep in my brain, there are two brain cell that have registered and stored those images.... and I will never get those brain cell back.
Damm you Slashdot!
Looking back on my nerd roots at that time, I looked a lot worse. The thing that strikes me about those pictures is how much he's aged (no surprise, but it's still striking). Time waits for no man (women either).
Please, please bring back goatse instead.
Seriously, that's just disgusting.
Boycott everything - they're all trying to fuck you one way or another
This is fake, right?
Yes, it's fake. You see the padded muscles under the sweater.
94% of Repubs and 21% of Dems voted to renew the Patriot Act
I just threw up a little bit in my mouth!
People in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned situation.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
More old Gate's images (since you're into that kind of thing):p g
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http://www.emh.co.kr/images/bill_gates.j
http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/business/bill
http://www.cvm.qc.ca/mlaflamme/info/WhoseWho/b_
http://www.ehsandiary.com/archives/bill%20gates
(The image: Actually from Newsweek)
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/WINDOWS/BIL
Nother old image.
http://www.jmusheneaux.com/VERSE-OPINON2/
These were found via Google's image search.
I always figured he named his company after his medical condition!
Clearly, previous generations had faith that future generations would correct this tragedy. By doing this, they have made it easier for us to extract Bill's likeness out of the photograph and manipulate it as we deem necessary.
Join Tor today!
I call upon whatever gods there may be to spare us from seeing the rest of these photos, wherein a clearly stoned billg loosens up and strips down.
this is getting old and so are you
blog
These pics are NSFW
"I was young and I needed the money."
You obviously haven't seen this :)
If there is a mistake...well, you should have used the 'Preview' button!
sulli
RTFJ.
I guess you've never been lampooned before.
Your suggestion has as much merit as Gates using deadly force to prohibit distribution of these photos.
Get it?
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
... the long forgotten images to succeed the goatse guy were unveiled.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
Then, my friend, the internet will hang up, which will ultimately lead to the destruction of the universe...
... as we know it.
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Kernel patch to ban that, please.
Evidently I have no sense of humor :/
Oh wait, wrong link, this is the one.
Here's a mirror, another blog.
AND... for the real freaks out there who need more than 2 photos, here are two other pics (one, two) from the same day (well, he's wearing the same clothes, anyway; I guess that doesn't mean much), a classic early MS photo (NOT a hoax, despite the domain name), and Billy G's mugshot.
I hope they don't mean "fap fap fap fap fap fap fap"....
What the hell is Teen Beat magazine anyway?
This is a test of the Epic 2014 newscasting system. Beware to those who prefer gossip (such as this story) over real news. When your news is personalized it will be as narrow, shallow, and sensationalized as you are.
"At its best, edited for the savviest readers, EPIC is a summary of the world - deeper, broader and more nuanced than anything ever available before. At its worst, and for too many, epic is merely a collection of trivia, much of it untrue, all of it narrow, shallow and sensational. but epic is what we wanted. epic is what we chose..."
See: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/
As a side note: The transcript linked from robinsloan.com is posted on a news site with terrible formatting (possibly due to the excessive amount of ads) and is incomplete. It omits some of the more insightful points of the flash movie. Just a further display of the motives and/or intentions of advertising driven news outlets and the need to be critical of your news sources.
I'm too sexy for a haircut ;p
:) Just kidding. As I've said before, I kid because I love.
Too sexy for a haircut
So sexy it hurts! Yow!!
Actually, to be completely fair, he doesn't exactly look thrilled to be posing for the pictures. Imagine if Torvalds were cornered to do this. Or... in some frightening parallel universe where geeks are considered the ultimate sex objects: Stallman. (Brrr... I shudder at the thought)
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
And to think this was the man who defeated the evil empire of IBM -- way back when IBM was the evil empire!
all that happyness and good will in his expression... he maybe felt like Luke Skywalker against the evil Empire ?
Or does he resemble Mark Hamil in those photos?
Sorry, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here... We still love you, /. :)
Why does yahoo do this
Seriously you guys are behind recently with your news. These pics have been circulating for at least a month now. Play catch up guys
That is a 9 inch Mac back there. This was back when Gates and Jobs were friends. It's entirely possible that Bill got a Mac early.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Ask yourself how Bill could get a Mac in 1983
Well, from the start Microsoft was a primary developer for applications software on the Mac platform. When the Mac was introduced, MS was not the behemoth it is today, but it WAS the king of systems software and languages already, so it was natural to turn to MS to develop a BASIC for the Mac (Applesoft BASIC on the II+ was a derivative/extension of the same MS-BASIC used on the Commodore PET). Furthermore, MS was trying to break through in the applications arena and it's flagship application was MS Multiplan (precursor to Excel and initially a distant also-ran to Lotus 123 and VisiCALC). Apple also needed some software ready for when the Mac came out and was too busy on the system to develop a lot of useful applications so it needed 3rd party assistance from MS and others.
Given MS and Apple wanted to at least try to have BASIC and Mutiplan ready for the MACs release, MS had to have prototype specimens before it was released--and in fact it did receive its first Apple Mac in late 1982. So, yes Bill could did get Macs by 1983.
BTW, the first MS products for the Mac weren't unlike any other MS product--they sucked but were somewhat useable nonetheless (Jobs complained that MS "didn't get it" in regards to GUI design, and "had no taste" and on both points it could be said that Multiplan supports his observations). MS became by far the larget 3rd party software vendor of Macintosh progams largely the way it came to dominate in BASIC on early micros--first mover advantage.
"Still not clean, still not clean, still not clean"
Have you had yourself checked for Obsesive Compulsive Disorder?
This works for me.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake -- but you could be if you got off your ass.
The one on the left in the background is an IBM XT or a clone; I'm not sure about the one on the right; maybe a Lisa?
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Agreed. Looks like they couldn't handle the bandwidth.
As in, it was blogged to heck and back over the weekend and *still* you chose not to reference *any* of the *many* sites that posted it prior to /. "found"?
/. Go figure.
I *should* be able to spend mod points on articles themselves... but I haven't received any mod points since posting negative things about
I did not want to see Bill Gates throwing his floppy around....
IANAL... But I play one on
right here
Why everyone is so negative? Personally I think these are rather nice photos.
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I said nothing about who you should adore, and you know damn well people do not read about the top of the hierarchy in order to get good ideas from them. If you want good ideas from Gates, try being born into a rich and well connected family, like he did.
The fact is that you geeks, just all the rest of the human race, idolize the top of hierarchy. And me, being the bombthrower I am, just love to point it out, especially because many of you like to think you are ultrationalists....
eat shiat and bark at the moon
Notice the BSOD on one of the computers,.
Welcome to the dark ages of monochrome monitors and DOS.
Here's another nice shot of Uncle Bill: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/gatesmug1.ht ml
There isn't enough bleach nor enough wire brushes to get the dirt off. Why won't it come off? Damn you NeoWin! Damn you all to hell!
-- The problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back.
One more thing: power and money were big in the 80's. Very big. Yuppies were the shiz-nit.
How is there a Mac in a 1983 photo spread?
Still my favorite:
;)
Pie Gate
Can't get enough of that.
"I'm not ashamed I can't function in society like I'm supposed to." - Paul Westerberg
I think you missed the joke. Gates owns Corbis.
Cluebat at the ready; set to stun!
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
And steal ideas from.
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AAaaaag! My precious eyes! Aaaah!
Education is the silver bullet.
I still do have my set of Windows 1.0 disks. Of course, they have nails driven through them, but anyway...
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/ohnotheydidnt /946946.html Link to the livejournal post where I saw this yesterday.
In those comment threads hundreds of girls are absolutely SWOONING. I really don't understand that gender. But it's a hopeful sign. Wonder if I have a sweater like that in my closet somewhere.
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Billy Jean is not my lover He's just a boy who claims that I am the one This are not pictures from the magazine. They are personal photos that he took to give to his lover. Someone said that the photographer asked him to make love to the camera. But... the photographer is his lover!
Same for Apple hardware. Remember that they were developing a WYSIWYG word processor for the Mac.
{{The story goes that Jobs tried his best to convince the powers at WordPerfect (#1 in those days) to do a WYSIWYG app for the Mac. The WP guys thought that it was a foolish notion (who would want to see what the fonts and the page looked like on the screen any way?)
Enter BG. MSWord followed by MSExcel came out on the Mac, jumped over to the x'86 platform and eventually wiped out WP, Lotus123 etc.}}
News Reporter Voice: This is Joe Shmoe near the Microsoft campus. I have never seen horror like this - a 28,432 car pileup. It appears all the drivers crashed after vomiting on their own windshields.
The link takes me to a site that says, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here. Pretty lame post if you ask me.
There are two words to describe how I feel after seeing those pics:
"Micro" and "Soft"
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Where Macs Belong in the Living Room
He could lore me to his bed. After all he wont be wining any one over on his looks.
Is this NSFW? I get the impression from other comments that it may not be. ;-)
Again a critical life-saving article from Slashdot which undoubtedly will provide yet again vital information to the unwashed masses.
Good job slashdot in publishing the most stupid, useless, ridiculous post of 2005. And it's just a beginning.
Seriously, is this really *needed*?. You do not like Bill or M$ - fine. Any news?
You mean that's NOT photoshopped?!
Ugh. The nightmares.
This had to have been 1985 or later. Look at the front computer in the first shot. It's running Windows 1.x.
FWIW, the BSOD didn't appear until Windows 3.1, and the OD part didn't come about until Windows NT 3.1 (I wouldn't be surprised if WFWG had fatal bluescreen errors). So, I have no clue on what's on the back PC. Maybe a command prompt where someone had some fun with ANSI.SYS?
However, look elsewhere. See the Mac in the corner?
My question is this: In 1983 (or 84, judging by the Mac) Bill Gates and Microsoft were on the rise, but in the computer industry. Outside the computer industry (oh, yeah, and Wall Street), people wouldn't have known who he was. So what was Teen Beat's interest? Not a movie star. Not on TV. Not, for several years yet, the richest guy on the block. So what's the story?
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Two pics
Don't let the term "Micro soft" fool you.
With MS Windows 3.1, MS moved from black/white title bars to blue/grey ones and also used grey-on-blue instead of grey-on-black in BSOD. It was a purely marketing decision because Black SOD looked too gruesome.
Check out Bill's Mug Shot
Doesn't say. However, the BSOD didn't even come close to existing then. The only similar thing was if you booted Win 1.x on a version of DOS that had been DOSVER'd to 4.0 or higher (back then, 4.0 didn't exist), and it would give this weird error message with "Incorrect DOS version" stuck in there.
So it all started with the blue screen.... and 20+ years later, everyone still sees a lovely blue screen
-- Eekrano
I hate when that happens...
You're right, I don't think MS would be that careless with a prototype product. Furthermore, other posters have noticed upon further examination that these are NOT pics from a 1983 "Teen Beat" magazine--the article posted to /. is false (although the pictures are hilarious).
The pictures appear to be taken in 1985, most likely as part of an article in some computer magazine covering the release of Windows 1.0 on the unsuspecting public. Given the "I'm too sexy for my C-prompt" atmosphere, perhaps they weren't even formally published and were merely candid shots among many to chose from (like the photographer trying an experiment that failed miserably).
(Oh, no, my eyes, it burns, it burns)
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Earlier! Applesoft (the BASIC version of Apple][ that replaced Apple I's Integer Basic) was entirely written by Microsoft.
Did I say "written"? Sorry, it was entirely BOUGHT by Microsoft from someone else.
Hatredman
Oh, so hot that my processor overheated. No, wait, it was just a problem in my cooler.
No it's NOT!
It is running the splash screen of MS Word 2.0. I had one of those ina an 360K 5 1/4" diskette back in 85.
Hatredman
When i click on the link in the article this is the message i get!
/. :)
Sorry, no nude pictures of Bill Gates here... We still love you,
[I get that too]
Not that I'm like, dying to see picture of Bill Gates in Teen Beat or anything...
OTOH, I could use a new pic for the dartboard.
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someone put this up on HotorNot.
-ashot
Oh, Bill. You coy little he-devil. Program me into your arms.
/projectile vomit
I am scientifically inaccurate.
I dont even need to come up with a funny comment, those pictures are enough on their own...oh sexy Mr Gates, how those 80's teen age girls adored you!
Jesus christ. Those images are like... I'll be making an install image for a new batch of HP machines soon, at least now I know what the background image will be. My eyes.
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
Actually there was X windows, which descended from other graphical user interfaces. Xerox's Alto, developed at their Palo Alto Research Center --PARC seems to have been the first (1978), followed by the Xerox Star GUI circa 1981 (take a look over at http://www.thocp.net/hardware/xerox_star.htm), which featured a complete desktop with icons, menus, mouse input, and windowed applications. Microsoft was (is) a Johnny-come-lately, Vanneuver Bush published contributing documents to GUI design --in 1945 (just after world war 2), and Doug Englebart did an amazing proof-of-concept demonstration that shocked and amazed the computer establishment --in 1969. The comment as stated 'there was no Windows' as the previous poster stated, obviously should have been 'there was no Windows --on *my* computer'. However, the statement was partially correct. There was no BSOD on any of the prior systems, just Microsoft's.
My eyes, my eyes, for the love of God, my eyes!
he will be known as Bill Gaytes. ;)
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According to Museum of Hoaxes, the photos were taken by Deborah Feingold in 1985 -- for the launch of Windows 1.0.
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In the first pic the impression I got was that he was about to go to sleep.
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or..
"Ready?? POSE!!" - Teen Girl Squad
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Still, he wasn't all that bad looking in those photos. Nerdy, sure, but then we already knew that about him.
Lordy, lordy, though; what unhappy changes time hath wrough.
Doing my level best to piss off the religious right wing...
Nuff said.
I can just hear the camera the camera man saying "Oooh! That sucha sexy pose! Oh, that's feisty! Throw me another floppy disk!"
Profit scheme:
- wear blue pants
- collect strange software interpreter
- ????
- Billionaire!!
Microsoft Word 1.0 was on a Mac,
because Windows didn't exist then yet.
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j
I do NOT want a CmdrTaco dupe to this story in particular.
Most likely MS Word for DOS.
Some of the default/popular display settings were white on blue, or light blue on dark blue.
Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.
He was NOT in Teen Beat. This story is wrong, the second time in about as many days that Snopes has scooped Slashdot.
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http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments /2272/
Snopes.com debunks this story. The photos are real, but they are NOT from Teen Beat magazine.
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Not likely. Apple was very secretive about the development of the Macintosh. The first public glimpse of the Mac was in the Super Bowl commercial.
So nobody clued in that this was a hoax?
The pictures were actually from a publicity shoot in 1985 for the initial release of Windows.
Saying Android is a family of phones is akin to saying Linux is a family of PCs.
you can see him trying to copy the mac desktop with the back 2 computers.
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all because you wanted to save a few cents on brake pads.
banks make money out of thin air? How does that work? Or are you just stupid?
Ok... you're an AC so you'll never read this, but I thought I'd tell you anyway. Banks "create" money under rigid rules that limit how much they can create (M2). It works like this:
You go to your bank and request a loan for a used (but nice) car. When it's approved you get a check which you deposit into your account. You write a check to the owner for the car and he deposits it in his bank. No money existed for this entire series of transactions. It was "created" by the bank not printed by the Treasury.
The only "real" money (M1) from this deal would be if the seller of the used car cashed that check and received the proceeds in currency. But it's more likely that he(she) would have written a check to pay off the remaining balance on the car and then written another check to buy another car.
No one ever had to evacuate a city because the solar panels broke!