Monkey Madness posted a couple of sexy pictures of Bill Gates on Sunday: Bill Gates Strikes a Pose for Teen Beat Photospread, 1983. He's posing in his office with an IBM PC screen, but as many have noticed, there is also a pre-launch Mac in the background. (This is assuming Monkey Madness has the date right.*)
The Mac Observer has responded with a stunning pic of super-cutie Steve Jobs with what looks like an Apple IIc.
* BoingBoing says: "Mark was the first to point out that the Macintosh on the desk behind him would indicate that this photo was taken in 1984 at the earliest." This argument is wrong, of course. The Mac was launched in January 1984 -- it was 10 months late -- but lots of people had them in late 1983, including me. Since Microsoft was the biggest Mac application software house, you can be sure they had a few.
Update: As a comment below notes, the pictures are now on Snopes. Yes, they are really of Bill. No, they were not taken for Teen Beat. As Snopes says: Status: Real photos; inaccurate description.
