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

[Bill Loguidice]

Well, the CoCo 3 one was included because it was so "scandalous," but yes,
I agree that it would have been a good idea to have mentioned the prior
Easter Egg as a counterpoint and to put the severity of the reaction
(perhaps as an overreaction) into perspective. Definitely something to
insert into that section if we ever do a new edition (though keep in mind
that it's exceedingly rare for new editions of books like this to be
produced).

-Bill

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 11:42 PM, Boisy Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:

> 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 superseded in the CoCo 3:  Instead of printing MICROSOFT when a CLS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).
>
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