Four-Way Tie on Gates and Allen

With regard to last week’s meme, I offered a tip of the PSACOT hat to the first person spotting the error in my Microsoft profile from 1980. It was a four-way tie between four friends from MIT: three The Tech colleagues and one WTBS pal. In alphabetical order, Beth Karpf, you get a tip of the hat. Harrison Klein, you get a tip of the hat. David Tenenbaum, you get a tip of the hat. Neal Vitale, you get a tip of the hat. These are four friends who read the column very soon after it is posted.

And for those of you who didn’t spot it, the error was that the caption flipped the IDs for Gates and Allen. I wrote the caption. Headquarters might have flipped the picture during the printing process. I never heard from Gates or Allen, but I know for certain they saw it. In fairness to me, no one knew what they looked like at that point.