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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
James Wallace and Jim Erickson
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James Wallace and Jim Erickson
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This book by James Wallace and Jim Erickson came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dave Plummer. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“I'm reading a book that I had bought called Microsoft, or Bill Gates, and the Making of Microsoft Hard Drive... And it's a great book.”— Dave Plummer
The guest here is Dave Plummer: A retired old-school Microsoft software engineer who worked on MS-DOS, Windows 95, NT, and XP, creating the Windows Task Manager, ZIP folder support, and the port of Space Cadet Pinball. He now runs the YouTube channel Dave's Garage and wrote a book about life with autism. Old-school Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer recounts building Windows Task Manager, ZIP support, and Pinball, plus living and working with autism.
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