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

[Arthur Flexser]

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superseded in the CoCo 3:  Instead of printing MICROSOFT when a CLS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