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Posted Tuesday 21st August 2007 16:32 GMT
Tam Lin

Math 1.0 for calagan [OT]

Altair Basic (a.k.a. Microsoft Basic) was released in April in 1975. I know; in 1976, (22 BDCMA) I designed and kludged in an 8" floppy disk storage add-on for it.

Windows 1.0 was released November 1985.

Next time check your dates before you go flinging chairs around.

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