So we've entered the Powercast with your host is Jane Steinberg and David Bealey.

So we have this letter from Tim Beckley at Apple.

No, Tim Beckley from New York.

Yeah, he's an engineer at Apple Computer,

the fine maker of personal electronics products.

Well, I think he wishes he were because he struggles hard.

And you heard of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniap back in the original days in the garage with Dan Cocky?

Well, you know what? I think he was hiding in the garage.

I think he might have been involved with the translation of that breakout game they were doing for Atari.

I think he might have done some of the low-level controller coding.

When it comes to Tim Beckley, it's very low-level.

Yeah, no, I think he worked on the drivers for the original Apple 2C for the 80-column adapter.

I think that was, wasn't that, yeah, I know who he is.

He invented the abacus machine for the Chinese.

Wasn't that Bill Gates?

Well, I think it comes to a close race there, but I think

Beckley was... So what does Beckley have to do with the Apple tablet being announced on January 27th at the

Urba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California? I don't know. Let's look at the letter he sent us,

okay? Okay. He says, unless Cooper told two versions of what happened, he did not see the saucer land.

I know because he called me on the phone to set the record straight about some things he thought I had said on a radio program,

which turned out someone had misquoted him on.

I spoke to him for about half an hour.

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