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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
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deathcowsays...The King Of Right Place, Right Time
chilaxesays...A record store? What's that?
handmethekeysyousays...It's called the iTunes store, and I think I just heard something about a software store like it...>> ^chilaxe:
A record store? What's that?
lucky760says...*promote
siftbotsays...Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 10:01am PDT - promote requested by lucky760.
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