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Bill Gates Interviewed in News Story in 1977

submitted by Stingray

1 decade 3 years 1 week ago

From YouTube desc:

TV news report from KOB-TV in Spring, 1977. Includes maybe the first ever TV interview with Bill Gates.

When I was 22, I worked at a TV station in Albuquerque, processing news film and editing videotape. Occasionally, I'd do on-air stories. The first personal computer kit had been introduced by a local company, MITS, and Albuquerque was home to the first computer store. A small company called Micro-soft opened up shop to write software for these new machines, and I did a series of news stories about the news industry that began just up the street from me.

So, when I visited Micro-soft (it had a dash in the name at the time), I spoke to Bill Gates. We were both 22. His comments, and the other interviews, were prophetic about the future of software stores and illegal program copying at a time before most people even considered having a computer in their home.

This is not an "aircheck," so it lacks name supers, and I don;t remember the names of the other guys I interviewed. I found this old 3/4" videotape in the basement and thought I'd share it.

Henry Birdseye