Bill Gates Responds to my Email - RE:Commodore Easter Egg

I wrote to Bill to see if he could answer some of the mysteries surrounding the WAIT Easter Egg, and Bill kindly answered! I go through his response, as well as an important channel milestone: 10,000,000 views!

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[jaberwoky_]

In the 90s, I collected celebrity photos. I was a programmer and requested one from Microsoft. I really didn't expect a response but promptly received a note from their office that Mr Gates schedule was busy but he would get back to me. A couple of months later, I received a small coloured, personally autographed photo of one of the richest people on the planet.

[marksterling]

Congratulations on a fantastic milestone. You have such engaging stories, i always enjoy watching. So makes total sense that so many other enjoy your videos.

[DougDingus]

Dave, congrats! I cannot speak to your success in general, but I can say your style, clarity in particular, humor and subject matter hit home for me.

Thanks for the great times.

[tobiwonkanogy]

We are here because of the work you did in the first place . Many of our daily tasks are driven by the work you performed . As long as i can learn and look back, ill keep coming back. Thank you Dave .

[Mauriceh]

i'm just happy to be one of your 200.000 close friends. Love the videos!

[GeirSandstad]

Just got an e-mail yesterday, comfirming that your book is in the mail. With some luck, it should be arriving here in Norway within a couple of weeks. Looking forward to read it.

[moullas]

This is EPIC on so many levels. Can't wait to see this video

[ocotillo]

Missed registration because of work, but please keep up the great content of your life and times at MSoft

[lornetyndale]

Dave, it has been known for a while that Leonard Trameil was a primary person for designing PETSCII and yes, he did it to add some graphics capabilities to the PET. But it would also not surprise me to learn that Microsoft was involved in the process too. Things like that often involve more then a single person after all.

[GreatDogs]

Very cool. Glad you heard back from him about the easter egg. Keep up the good work.

[sirgouki]

Just a note Dave (may I call you Dave? Maybe Mr. Garage?) - When you said "University of Regina", I spit water on my monitor because it almost sounded like you said "University of Virgina" and I had to turn the captions on to see what you actually said. Congrats on the 10Million watches, hopefully your sub count starts catching up to your view counts. You're one of the only "Computer Guy" channels I actively follow any more, largely due to most of the other guys being... I'll say arrogant to be nice.

[CommodoreGreg]

Thank you for doing these episodes on Commodore/6502 BASIC and congrats on the milestone!

[glengrayban]

Thanks Dave. I can relate to you on so many levels. I’ll be watching tonight.

[franklincerpico]

Dave thank you for sharing your life experiences with us even though you're retired and could be doing anything else.

[DelphinusVyse]

Missed registration for the event because I worked today and I'm on the east coast, but as someone with ADHD and Asperger's I happily bought your book and look forward to reading it. Life has really been a struggle as of late, hoping your book can help me in some way. :)

[_Bit]

Leonard Tramiel, Jack's son, created PETSCII with the help of some other Commodore employees. He even recently blogged about it.

[mikehuston]

I'm not a big programmer by any means but I have learned a lot from your videos. Thanks for doing these videos

[farab]

Haha, I got this video recommended today for some reason and just assumed it was new. When you said today 26 Jan 2022, my head started spinning 🙂

[kswanson]

I absolutely love the content. Brings back so many memories from my youth and budding interest in technology.

[JVHShack]

By the time YouTube recommended this video, registration was already closed at 86 minutes post premier... drat... I really wanted to do this on my niece's behalf because she is autistic.