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Sexy Beast

by Joey deVilla on Fri 14 Jan 2005 11:37 AM EST | Permanent Link | Cosmos

Let's say it's the early 1980's. You've just bought a Quick and Dirty Operating System and repackaged it for IBM to include with their new "Personal Computer" (IBM had such a revulsion for non-mainframe things that the PC was created by the "Entry Systems Division", which suggested that these were things you used until you got a real computer).

You're a hot rising software star, and hot rising software stars need dates. Which photo should you send potential soul mates?

This one?

Photo: Bill Gates sits on his desk, posing playfully. Probably faked.

Photo: Bill Gates sits on his desk, posing playfully. Probably faked.

"I'm plug and play, yo."

Or this one?

Photo: Bill Gates sits on his desk, posing with a 'come hither' look. Probably faked.

"640K of this action should be enough for anybody, baby!"
(Thanks to Dan Dickinson for the inspiration.)

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