>...and I think Bill Gates bought Word 1.0 from Les Printer (of foxpro fame) for like $5,000 bucks.

LOL.
Les Pinter.

". In 1979, Les teamed up with two friends, Mike Griffin and Bill Radding, to help develop the Magic Wand, the fourth word processor ever written for the CP/M operating system. In September of 1980, Les took a call from a 23-year-old Bill Gates, and the next day met with the Microsoft founder and sold him the source code that became Microsoft Word."