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Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Jerry Pournelle, and Bill Machrone

A Bill Gates farewell review from MITS to DOS to Windows, chair jumping, a Ballmer future, and more.

• Bill Gates departs Microsoft (2008 CES farewell video)
• Dvorak: No More Odes to Bill Gates, Please!
• Google's Lunar X Prize
• Ballmer likes developers
• Dvorak again (MarketWatch): Microsoft without Gates
• Bill's 1994 "Information at your Fingertips" Comdex speech
• Bill the competitor: Jumping over chair during Connie Chung interview or playing ping pong.
• Bill Machrone and Esther Dyson on Charlie Rose during Windows 95/MSN launch (26:00-43:00).
• Pournelle: Gates had personally called about the "illegal copy of DOS now trashing your hard disk" issue.
• Altair BASIC
• Gates' 1976 "Stop stealing my code" letter to to Homebrew Computer Club.
• Gates' first business card.
• Ballmer is really more of a salesman.
• Seymour Rubinstein, software pioneer.

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Show notes by David Di Franco.

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