Li-Chen Wang
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Li-Chen Wang is an American computer engineer, best known for his Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for Intel 8080-based microcomputers. He was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and made significant contribut
From left to right: Li-Chen Wang, Len Shustek, John Draper, Gordon French, Marty Spergel, Bob Lash, Ralph Campbell.
Note the "LICHEN" (Li-Chen) marked on this Exatron ROM produced for the TRS-80 Model 1 Exatron Stringy Floppy drive.
Kaleidoscope was written by Li-Chen Wang for the Cromemco Dazzler. It was only 127 bytes long, but it stopped traffic in New York City.
An Open Letter to Hobbyists
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"An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the widespread duplicat
Li-Chen Wang
…the Altair BASIC code and contributed edits to Tiny BASIC Extended. Wang published in the newsletter a loader for the 8080, commenting on Bill Gates' "An Open Letter to Hobbyists": Altair Basic has a bootstrap loader of twenty or twenty one bytes long. In principle, you can use this bootstrap to load in your own loader which…
Altair 8K BASIC on paper tape. This was a popular storage medium before the invention of the low-cost floppy disk.
Ad for the Apple I computer, noting Apple's policy of providing free or inexpensive software for its computers
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Bill Gates June 2015