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William Henry Gates
1 98101? 206? Seattle(STTL), King County, WA
1955(10/28)
I saw Bill Gates speak at COMDEX in Chicago in 1999. At COMDEX in Chicago the previous year during his talk, a demo that he and his assistant were doing had the PC crash with a BSoD. At the talk I was at, they re-did the demo. The assistant said that he had tested the demo every day for the last year.

Not long after Bill Gates talk, Linus Torvalds talked in another room. I remember a couple of guys saying that they thought there the only ones who had been to both Gates and Torvalds talks, which I knew was nowhere near the truth.

Blue screen of death says "One famous instance of a Windows 9x BSoD occurred during a presentation of a Windows 98 beta given by Bill Gates at COMDEX on April 20, 1998: The demo PC crashed with a BSoD when his assistant, Chris Capossela, connected a scanner to the PC to demonstrate Windows 98's support for Plug and Play devices. This event brought thunderous applause from the crowd and Gates replied (after a nervous pause): 'That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet.'"

COMDEX says "In 1999, Linus Torvalds attended the exhibition to talk about the Linux family of operating system"
Chris Capossela
1 02205? 617? Boston(BSTN), Suffolk County, MA
1969
Windows 98 presentation fail (HQ)

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