Bill Gates 1989 Talk in Waterloo

Martin · **Posted:** Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:04 pm

In '89, Mr. Gates came to Waterloo to talk about the early days of Microsoft and where he saw the company heading. The Computer Science Club recorded this talk, and it was then lost in the depths of the club's office... until recently. We digitalized it, and now here it is for everyone's enjoyment! He even mentions the ever famous 640K.

Click!

Hikaru79 · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:16 am

Awesome! Martin, mind if I submit this to Slashdot? I'd normally do it without asking, but I don't want to kill the CSC servers' bandwidth. Would it be okay? It'd be awesome press Smile

Amailer · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:38 am

What happened at the beginning that they all started laughing?

Tony · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:26 pm

Martin, who was that guy form the club elections?

Quote:

If I'm elected VP CSC (or a more accurately recalled position), I will try to get Waterloo's servers Slashdoted again!

Heh, good stuff though.

Martin · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:14 pm

I already sent it through to Slashdot, although that was last night and it still hasn't shown up on the front page yet. Status is still pending.

None the less, feel free to submit it again. It can't hurt.

Amailer @ Fri Mar 02, 2007 21:38 wrote:

What happened at the beginning that they all started laughing?

It's lost forever in the sands of time.

md · **Posted:** Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:22 pm

Having seen the CSCs office I'm amazed that anything could ever be found in it. /me listens to the historic recording

[edit] If someone puts it on Digg I'll totally digg it.

Martin · **Posted:** Sat Mar 03, 2007 2:56 am

http://digg.com/microsoft/Bill_Gates_Thoughts_on_Microsoft_in_1989

2 days old, but it might still be able to make the front page?

Naveg · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:33 am

Well it made ars:

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/03/25/bill-gates-on-the-future-of-the-computer-industry-circa-1989

Mazer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:29 pm

LaRocaille wrote:

I graduated from CS at Waterloo two years ago and I can vouch that the CS Club still looks like that.

Tony · **Posted:** Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:31 am

More good stuff from CSC - this time a video of Prof. Larry Smith talking about software startups by UW students. There's also a textcast equivalent for those without 300 MB bandwidth and 40 minutes. Good stuff though.

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