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 vid...
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.
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Great video from 1977. I first moved to Albuquerque in 1976. I left in '79, but I came back in '92 and have been here ever since. Can you find more of these videos from the '70s. I would to see them once again. Thanks.
And thats why Gates is worth billions....he foresaw STORES selling software when 99% of the American population did not even know what the word meant.
This is great! I used this on a presentation I did for my college Information Systems course on Microsoft Software! A great youtube find! (I credited henrybirdseye)
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