[DM-MUG] Fwd: [MacLaw] Gates uses Macs for Cultural Preservation

[Bill Davis]

At least one person I used to work with at CE Software here in Des 
Moines moved to Seattle and went to work for Corbis.  I got to visit 
him and see a bit of what he was working on when I interviewed for a 
job at Microsoft back in '93 after the first CE layoffs.   He was a Mac 
programmer named John Pence.

So there's a Des Moines connection there as well, it seems.

(And man, even 12 years ago Microsoft was one NICE place to work.  I 
can't imagine what it's like now....)

  - Bill

On Apr 28, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Victoria L. Herring wrote:

>> Tonight's Public Television news story covered the preservation of the
>> Beckman Photography Collection by its acquisition by Corbis, who are
>> saving all of these deteriorating historical photographs by scanning
>> and digitizing them.
>>
>> To his credit, Bill Gates appears on the segment and is credited with
>> undertaking and funding the project.
>>
>> However, when the scene shifts to the lab where the processing from
>> film to digital images is taking place, it becomes very clear that the
>> equipment and software being used is Macintosh, not Windows! :)
>>
>> Smart man, that Bill Gates!
>>
>> Nate
>>
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