[ChadGore]

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[AppyPappy]

I didn't think the Macs came out until 1986.

[Prime Choice]

Yep...that's a Mac alright. Maybe a Mac SE.

[mhking]

Is that a mac ?

Sure looks like it to me!

[SengirV]

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Yes, in fact he started out on Apples(ones before the Mac)

[nj_pilot]

...is that a booger on his left sleeve?

[MineralMan]

Nope. It's an IBM AT. 80286, running at 6mhz.

[MineralMan]

Oh, on the right. Yeah, that's a Mac.

[dfwright]

That does look suspiciously like a Mac back there. And were'nt the Macs introduced in '84? Maybe that was a prototype. The PC looks like either a PC/AT, or an XT clone, and has a 1/2 height floppy drive. The PCs that I saw in the early 80's were still sporting full height floppy drives, and there weren't too many clone makers at the time other than Compaq, The PC/ATs were also introduced in '84, IRRC.

[JimVT]

Bill and Jon. Separated at birth?

[Tribune7]

Looks like one, and if those pixs are from '83 he got it before the public at large had a chance to get one.

[RobRoy]

I bought a copy of OS2 Warp and part of the install included a video of Gates at a convention, when he was working close with IBM, saying that OS2 was the operating system of the future.

Pretty funny even then.

[Zebra]

The computer to the far right behind Gates is a Mac Plus or a Mac SE. I had both. No Lisa in the picture (I had that, too). All were better than any IBM product.

Not surprising Gates had one, as he essentially stole the Mac hierarchial filing system to make Windows.

Microsoft was never an innovator, just a master at commercializing products.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

They produced Mac applications software and AFAIK they still do.