[Coco] Easter Eggs in BASIC, Bill Gates and the CoCo

[Boisy Pitre]

On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:36 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Tom <tgmaxx at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Interesting reads...
>> 
>> http://www.pagetable.com/?p=43
>> 
>> http://programmersatwork.wordpress.com/bill-gates-1986/
>> 
> 
> Actually, the CoCo Easter Egg mentioned in the first article was
> superseded in the CoCo 3:  Instead of printing MICROSOFT when a CLS
> value of  9 or higher is entered, the CoCo 3 prints "Microware Systems
> Corp."   However, for CLS 100, it prints "T. Harris & T. Earles", the
> names of 2 of the 3 mugateers pictured in the ctrl-alt-reset graphic.
> 
> These additional Microware eggs aren't mentioned in Boisy and Bill's
> book, despite the book's considerable discussion of the mugateer
> picture.  The negation of Microsoft's own CLS Easter Egg seems
> particularly provocative.  Did you guy's know about this?


Art,

Yes, I knew about this, but it didn’t get mentioned because I didn’t think about it, unfortunately.

If we ever get an opportunity to do a second edition, I’ll definitely put it in there (among other things).