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

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Any thoughts on making a new edition primarily electronic (ie iBooks/Kindle, etc.), to make it much more cost effective?

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com> wrote:

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 superseded in the CoCo 3:  Instead of printing MICROSOFT when a CLS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