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To bless the 50th ceremony of BASIC, Steve Wozniak has accounting some memories about his aboriginal adventures with this accepted language—and how he created his own BASIC from blemish for the Apple I and Apple II computers. An absurd feat. Enjoy!—JD

In 1967 or 1968, as a chief in top school, our electronics abecedary (the best abecedary of my activity in abounding teaching regards) abiding for me to go to a aggregation in Sunnyvale (Sylvania) to affairs a computer because I already knew all the electronics in chic at school. Mr. McCollum did this for acceptance with electronics abilities every year, award bounded companies with engineers and projects that would let top academy acceptance appear and and get some experience. I abstruse and programmed in FORTRAN on this IBM computer.

I aboriginal accomplished BASIC in top academy that aforementioned year. We didn't accept a computer in the academy but GE, I think, brought in a terminal with modem to advance their time-sharing business. A actual few of we ablaze algebraic acceptance were accustomed some pages of apprenticeship and we wrote some actual simple programs in BASIC. I saw that this was a actual simple and easy-to apprentice accent to alpha with, but that terminal was alone in our academy for a few days. I was asked by our arch algebraic abecedary to address a page on why I anticipation this would be a acceptable affair for our academy to have. I did absolutely address a page about analytic cerebration and botheration analytic but our academy didn't go advanced and get into the time-share program.

In my academy years my academy akin programming languages were of the accurate mold, FORTRAN, PL-1, Algol. Of advance I programmed a lot in abounding accumulation languages too, in academy and on my own.

In the Homebrew computer club we had a brace of books traveling about that I like to alarm 'bibles'. One was Computer Lib/Dream Apparatus by Ted Nelson, anecdotic a approaching apple of hyperlinks to added the acceptation of things in writing. His annual were like science fiction but we all knew that they were achievable, technically, and we were all apostles for this way of searching at the approaching of computing. The added 'bible' was a book "101 Amateur in BASIC." I was a fan of computer amateur and knew that as anon as I had a computer of my own I would wish to blazon in all these amateur to play. Judging by my own feelings, I affected that this would be a key to starting a home computer revolution. The non-businessman in me prevents me from talking about markets or finance.

I did not apperceive for abiding what a absolute computer bald to do the big banking jobs that computers did for companies, the computers that awash for huge amounts of money. Those were advantageous computers. All I knew was that which was abutting at hand. I ran simulations of dent designs and argumentation designs at HP, alive on calculators. My computer would accept to do that. My computer would aswell accept to play games. At atomic again I was abiding that my computer could accessible do the important things that top priced computers do, but I wasn't sure.

The key to amateur was BASIC. Bill Gates was alien except in the electronics amusement world. Everyone in our club knew that he'd accounting BASIC for the Intel microprocessor. I sniffed the wind and knew that the key to authoritative my computer acceptable (popular) was to cover a high-level accent and that it had to be BASIC. Engineers programming in FORTRAN were not traveling to be what would alpha a home computer revolution.

Learning the accent and autograph a BASIC interpreter

The botheration was that I had no ability of BASIC, just a bald anamnesis that it had band numbers from that 3-day high-school experience. So I best up a BASIC chiral backward one night at HP and started annual it and authoritative addendum about the commands of this language. Mind that I had never taken a advance in compiler (or interpreter) autograph in my life. But my acquaintance Allen Baum had beatific me archetype copies of pages of his texts at MIT about the accountable so I could affirmation that I had an MIT apprenticeship in it, ha ha. In my additional year of academy I had sat in a algebraic assay chic aggravating to advise myself how to alpha autograph a FORTRAN compiler, alive annihilation about the science of compiler writing. I went aback to this anamnesis and started autograph cipher for my 6502 dent to apprehend in curve that a user typed for assay and absurdity checking.

I knew about syntax archive and created one for this BASIC. I did not apperceive that HP BASIC was acutely altered than DEC BASIC, the one that the book "101 Amateur in BASIC" acclimated and that Bill Gates had written. I ample all BASIC's were the aforementioned but HP's differed abundantly if it came to strings of letters. I accomplished my syntax diagrams and they were complete. But I had in the aback of my arch that I could be a star, that I could get a little acclaim in the amusement world, like Bill Gates, if I created the aboriginal BASIC for the 6502. To save a bit of time, I bare the amphibian point operations out of my syntax diagram. I bald to address accumulation based simulations for my HP plan and amateur are based on logic, which is integers. I alone amphibian point numbers (ones with decimal points) alone to save a few weeks and accept a bigger adventitious of getting the aboriginal to advance this BASIC on the 6502. You ability attending aback and see that I included amphibian point addition routines in the ROM of the Apple ][ but I never went aback to plan them into the BASIC. If you cipher by duke (couldn't allow a time-share account) it's harder to accomplish changes in the average anatomy of things that accept to be at anchored addresses.

Breakout on Integer Basic running on the aboriginal Apple II.

I didn't apperceive about compiler autograph added than perchance. But I did apperceive about endless and things like converting expressions into RPN application stacks. Our HP calculators acclimated RPN, in fact. Cerebration about how to address this accent I came up with my own techniques, not like annihilation out of a book. I anguish up with what I alleged NOUN and VERB endless (operands and operators). I put tags in my syntax diagram but every abettor in it had a amount according to it's beeline position in this 256-byte or 512-byte (I forget) table. The 41st operand had the cipher of abettor #41.

I aswell had a account for every abettor of 2 priorities. One was its addiction to go advanced of added operators. For example, the + abettor would could cause a * abettor to activity first. But I bald a additional table of the attrition to getting pushed into activity to handle things like parentheses. I had no abstraction if I was on a actual clue but it formed accurately and did what I needed. It didn't accept to appear from a book.

I enjoyed demonstrating this BASIC at the Homebrew Computer Club. I never saw my name in book so I didn't get that 'Bill Gates' fame, but I was accepted in my club. This was even afore Steve Jobs saw that my computer existed. As time went by I alone had to address one accepted afterwards addition for ceremony of those numbered operators. Every club affair I'd accept a few added commands that formed fully.

With the Apple ][ I had the video and computer anamnesis one and the aforementioned so that the microprocessor, alteration maybe a actor (exaggerated) numbers a second, would change a actor awning bytes a second. Atari arcade amateur were accouterments again but now the amateur could be implemented as software, application 6502 apparatus accent programming. BASIC is an interpreted language. BASIC goes over the alone belletrist of ceremony account as it executes, free what to do. It is maybe 100 or 1000 times slower than apparatus accent as a result. But one day I was analytical as to whether you could affairs affective altar just in BASIC and see them move like astute animation.

I had advised Breakout for Atari in hardware. I wondered if I could affairs this simple activated arcade bold in BASIC? I knew I could affairs it in apparatus language. Since it was my own BASIC I went to the syntax blueprint and added commands to artifice blush and to draw accumbent and vertical lines. I again searched dent manuals and chose a dent with 4 timers (555 appearance timers) on one chip. I acclimated that with some software to apprehend paddle positions off potentiometers, dials that afflicted attrition according to area you angry the dial. Once I had these mechanisms installed (burning new EPROMS for the BASIC additions) I sat down and wrote some simple FOR loops to artifice artery in altered colors. I accept to accept approved 30 blush combinations in just minutes. Again I added paddles and account and a ball. I could acclimatize affairs ambit to change the brawl speeds and angles. By the way, I anticipate this is if I added a apostle with 1-bit audio just because you bald sounds if a brawl hit a brick, etc.

I alleged Steve Jobs over to my accommodation to see what I'd done. I approved to him how calmly and instantly your could change things like the blush of the bricks. Most importantly, in one-half hour I had approved added variations of this bold than I could accept done in accouterments over 10 years. Steve and I both accomplished how important it was traveling to be now that activated (arcade style) amateur could be software. Added than that, getting in BASIC meant that anyone of any age could affairs it.

I kept about 50 archival folders of affidavit throughout all my BASIC architecture work. Ceremony one was labelled GAME BASIC. So you can see area my arch was advancing from.

Update

Another note: In top academy or my aboriginal year of academy I told my dad that anytime I'd own a 4K Data General NOVA. He said it amount as abundant as a down transaction on an big-ticket house. I was abashed and told him I'd reside in an apartment.

Why 4KB?

Because that was the minimum bald to run a academy akin language. To me a computer had to accept added than switches an lights. It had to be able to run programs.

I'd congenital a switches and lights computer of my own architecture 5 years afore the Apple I. Aback again there was no way to allow 4KB of RAM so it had 256 bytes only.

In the Homebrew days, the summer of 1975, 3 companies alien 4K DRAM's. This was the aboriginal time that 4KB was absolutely affordable. I had to accept that abundant in adjustment to accept BASIC be a allotment of this computer. No best about it. Hence the minimum RAM on an Apple I or Apple ][ was 4KB. Had I not cared about BASIC, I apparently would accept just congenital addition switches and lights computer with basal changeless anamnesis and been done with it.

Editor's note: If you wish to apperceive added about Steve Wozniak's life, you can analysis out his biography iWoz.—JD

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10:02 PM ON May 5 2009

matt:

Our Blaze DX liveblog bliss off appropriate actuality at 9:30am EDT with pre-game advantage arch up to the actualization at 10:30am. See you soon!

9:09 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Good morning! I'm in NYC this anniversary so I'll be your abruptness liveblog abettor forth with coiled b and john m. You guys excited? Eh? EH?! Ehhhhhh. Ok we will get started soon!

9:18 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Testing, 1 2 3 pancakes.

9:18 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Hey! Acceptable morning! I'm in NYC this anniversary so I'll be your abruptness east bank reside blog operator, forth with Matt and John M. Acceptable news, Amazon didn't authority this accident in a basement, so I achievement that accession will be fine. You guys excited? I'm affectionate of meh! Could use a bit added sleep. But I'm abiding we'll be fine. So far, looks like a few humans are lined up. I'll let you apperceive if things happen.

9:23 AM ON MAY 6 2009

B. Lam:

Matty just showed up. There's not abundant to see but he's traveling to bung a few photos up of the accident building, at Pace University, and oh look, Wired's Brian X Chen just showed up.

9:28 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

9:28 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Brad from the NYTimes is here. We anticipate there's traveling to be a lot added than what we've heard…otherwise, why would they accept an accident instead of attached this to the blaze 2 barrage a few weeks ago.

9:30 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

It smells like wet dog attenuated with rotten debris topped with adulteration out here. Gotta adulation NYC.

9:31 AM ON May 6 2009

Mahoney:

Have a anticipation on suprise bedfellow because the City Hall location: MIKE BLOOMBERG?!

9:35 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

9:35 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Are we accepting let in or not?

9:43 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We're inside! Clearly, Pace has not redecorated aback the 1970s prison-chic movement.

9:44 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

We are central and the wifi looks appropriate this time. Humans are lining up at the close doors.

9:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

It looks like they're confined crappier coffee than endure time, too, out of animal artificial jugs, not adorned metal jars with waiters.

9:46 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

14 account til appearance time.

9:46 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Dude from PCMag sounds appealing absorbed about the abstraction of a behemothic Kindle. I dunno. Is just bigger better?

9:47 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

What do you anticipate is advancing out today? Josh from Engadget thinks it's traveling to be a baby kindle! Wearing patented sweater vest.

9:47 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Will it save newspapers?" Spoiler: no.

9:48 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Seriously. Pace is like a fortress. I feel trapped in a tomb of accurate and addled browns.

9:49 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

9:51 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Josh from Engadget has a actual tasteful bag.

9:53 AM ON May 6 2009

Mahoney:

9:54 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Josh and matt are talking about artery fighter.

9:54 AM ON May 6 2009

Mahoney:

Brian searching sharp. No pajamas or laptop suspenders? SAD.

9:56 AM ON May 6 2009

Mahoney:

Beyond these doors: THE BIGGEST KINDLE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.

9:56 AM ON May 6 2009

Jason Chen:

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9:56 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

OMg I can see central through the door! The aboriginal accelerate says…a…m…a….z…I can't accomplish out the rest. Sorry. 2 mins til appearance time.

9:57 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We're continuing in band by ourselves. Does anybody abroad apperceive something we don't know?

9:59 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We should be traveling central the close sactum soon, area the Amazon queen lays Blaze eggs.

10:00 AM ON May 6 2009

Mahoney:

With the Engadget boys. One big blessed family!

10:02 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We're inside. The queen accept to be abaft the blinding white awning with the Amazon logo.

10:04 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Man, this amphitheater is small. I admiration if this reflects how even Amazon feels about the consequence of the announcement? It's a big Blaze with bi-weekly powers?

10:04 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:05 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Mahoney doubts my approach that a behemothic Amazon queen lays Blaze eggs. It makes complete sense. She was too apathetic pooping them out during the aboriginal run, again she got a little bit faster, and now they've got her laying behemothic eggs.

10:06 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The aluminum physique of the MacBook Pros is bitter us in the ass award the Wi-Fi arresting Amazon is supplying, which will no agnosticism be imminently ashamed beneath the weight of a hundred bloggers.

10:07 AM ON May 6 2009

Jason Chen:

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10:07 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:08 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Everybody's got MacBooks, about everybody's application Canon. There are a few Nikons blind around, though. We're still blind out.

10:09 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:09 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The lights dimmed a bit, and I got excited. But it was just a tease. =(

10:11 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Where is Jeff Bezos??? Did the queen about-face on him?

10:12 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:13 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The music has taken a apathetic about-face for the worse. It's authoritative me sleepy.

10:14 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Are you adequate our photo advance of Blam? We're aggravating to allure him into traveling topless post-liveblog.

10:15 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:16 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

what's the official gum of gizmodo liveblog? stride. Matt buchanan says it lasts through one complete bold of ultimate frisbee. cough.

10:16 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We're chewing Stride gum, because it lasts a continued time. I assumption that makes it the official gum of Gizmodo liveblogging.

10:18 AM ON May 6 2009

Jason Chen:

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10:19 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The alone botheration with Stride is that while it lasts a continued time, if it dies, it dies hard. And I anticipate Orbit tastes better, but it doesn't endure as long.

10:21 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

If Jeff Bezos wrote a book, what do you anticipate it'd be about?

10:23 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The music they're arena just keeps accepting worse. I don't even apperceive what this applesauce is: It's like a banty complaining with some pianos and clinking instruments and synthesizers. What the hell, Amazon, what the hell.

10:23 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Can blaze accomplish you adulation account like THIS?

10:25 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Music's crumbling out. Are we starting??

10:26 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

That is a big date for just one little man. Surely, Jeff Bezos has guests. Michael Bloomberg? The NYT's Sulzberger clan? The Amazon Queen? Stephen King's half-cousin who wrote a physics arbiter in 1976?

10:28 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The Amazon Queen: Does she accept six legs, or eight? Is she added Predator than Alien? Does she accept a stinger?

10:29 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Music. So. Bad. There's a acumen I accept to At the Drive-In afore liveblogging, but I don't apperceive if the power-up aftereffect can endure through this.

10:31 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Factoid: About anybody actuality still has a abounding arch of hair.

10:32 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We should be starting soon, seriously.

10:32 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

The New big Blaze is not bigger than this book. I agreement it.

10:36 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Dum dum dum dum dum. It sounds like Final Fantasy action achievement music now.

10:38 am ON May 6 2009

Jason Chen:

Remember to animadversion over here!

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10:38 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Oh, actuality go! Jeff Bezos.

10:38 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The Blaze eyes "every book anytime printed in any language."

10:38 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We're up to over 275,000 books today, from 230,000 in Feb.

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Kindle sales are now 35 percent of books–there's a big fasten with Blaze 2 launching.

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:39 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

That's 35 percent of all the books Amazon sells. Kindle. Whoa.

10:40 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:40 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

They're demography continued appendage approach: Starting with head, alive against tail. So 270,000 books compose over a third.

10:40 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Why's Blaze great? LCD is "like animated a flashlight in your eyes."

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Talking about why Blaze is still great: "Don't even accept to own a PC."

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Talking up 3G like you absolutely charge hardcore internets to download books.

10:41 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Lots of appealing humans captivation books.

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009

B.Lam:

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"It takes a lot of architecture accomplishment to accomplish something disappear." Like the Kindle.

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"The accessory doesn't beep at you, doesn't get balmy in your easily to accomplish your easily sweat."

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Yes, it's a behemothic Blaze bartering appropriate now.

10:42 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Here we go: "What about my claimed and able documents?"

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Looks like Blaze is traveling to get an upgrade: "Paperless association never came."

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:43 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Printers accept proliferated and "so accept their angry companion" the toner cartridge.

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Why do we print?" Is it because we adulation all the suckitude?

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Why does Jeff Bezos run out of Cyan all the time?

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

"I consistently run out of cyan first" A abiding assurance he's press flesh.

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Paper is bigger than acceptable screens." That's why we book he says.

10:44 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Oh my god. He just said "One added thing."

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"8 1/2 x 11″ behemothic on the screen. WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"You charge a big display."

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Kindle DX!

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

2.5 times the admeasurement of the Blaze display.

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Built-in PDF

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:45 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Beautiful on this device."

10:46 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"You never accept to pan, you never accept to zoom, you never accept to scroll."

10:46 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

It looks absolutely nice and readable. Maybe this IS the Blaze we've been cat-and-mouse for.

10:46 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Auto-rotate, like iPhone.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Highly formmatted books flash on this screen." Like cookbook. Mmm aqueous bedrock cakes.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Photos attending better, admitting still atramentous and white.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The QWERTY keyboard is squished forth the basal with tinier keys. This affair does attending weirdly ginormous.

10:47 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Textbooks. They've got three arbiter publishers on the angle with 60 percent of the college apprenticeship arbiter market: Pearson, Cengage Learning and Wiley.

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Showing a Calculus textbook. Calculus still sucks!

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Biology arbiter up now. It still sucks too!

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:48 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Students with abate backpacks. Beneath load. Easier access."

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"What about the students?" Five top universities are trialing Blaze DX

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Arizona State, Case Western, Princeton, Virginia

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:49 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

And Reed College.

10:50 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Case Western admiral on date now talking about how abundant it is.

10:50 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

So we're air-conditioned out.

10:50 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:51 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

I admiration how all of those Blaze 2 owners feel appropriate about now?

10:51 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

I mean, this is what the Blaze 2 should've been, no?

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Jeff's back.

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009

Jason Chen:

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10:52 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"Newspaper accept been an complete novel on Kindle."

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:52 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

He just said "automagically." Wow.

10:53 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:53 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

This summer, three bi-weekly are aerodynamics Blaze DX with bargain amount in barter for abiding subscriptions.

10:53 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

NYT, WaPo and Boston Globe. Where's the WSJ?

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

I was right! Arthur Sulzberger from the aged NYT is here.

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

YOU'RE ALL STILL DOOMED. JUST ELECTRONICALLY DOOMED, NOW

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:54 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:55 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Seriously, area the hell is the Wall Artery Journal? New York Times and Boston Globe are the aforementioned bedevilled company. Washington Post has consistently been hardly advanced of the curve.

10:56 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

He's assertive on calling it an "experiment." The NYT needs added than this to survive. Accept you guys arrested out the Times Clairvoyant on Windows and Mac? It's a appealing alarming agenda bi-weekly experience. Bigger than Blaze DX, I bet.

10:56 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Kindle DX will be offered to readers in areas area home supply is not available. Huh?

10:57 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Mentioning accepted Times authors. Left out Maureen Dowd. That's what you get for antisocial on Twitter, lady.

10:57 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Demo time!

10:57 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

We'll get to play with them outside.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Showing off congenital PDF reader.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

Press abiding is ambitious today.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

There's a behemothic camera guy ambuscade over his shoulder. Affectionate of awe-inspiring lookin.

10:58 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

10:59 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Sheet music. Violinists of the world, unite.

10:59 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Camera just blew up.

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

Refresh times could still be better, yeah.

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

The angel is backwards on the screen. New feature! It warps time and space.

11:00 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

"How did we get the projector to appearance backwards?"

11:01 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

"If you anticipate of yourself as searching at this through a mirror you can see even in reverse" it's cool clear.

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B. Lam:

11:01 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:01 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:02 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

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11:02 AM ON May 6 2009

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11:02 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

11:03 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:04 AM ON May 6 2009

Jason Chen:

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11:04 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:04 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

11:04 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:04 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:05 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:05 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:05 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:05 AM ON May 6 2009

B. Lam:

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matt:

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matt:

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11:06 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:07 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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11:07 AM ON May 6 2009

matt:

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matt:

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matt:

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matt:

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matt:

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matt:

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Jason Chen:

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