Scientific American - July 1985 (Score 2, Interesting)

I haven't replied to a Slashdot article in years but I had to reply to this one. On the wall of my den is a cover of the July 1985 Scientific American because in it is a piece of code I wrote that graphically demonstrated how bad the MS random number generator was then. It was a big moment for me :-)

10 SCREEN 2
20 X = RND * 640
30 Y = RND * 200
40 PSET (X,Y)
50 GO TO 20

The results were unbelievable. What was even harder to believe was we couldn't get MS to do a thing about it then. It's nice to know some things never change.