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Page 69
... CP / M from a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School , Gary Kildall , the same man who had sold comput- ers with John Torode to Omron . CP / M was brand new . Kildall had given Bar- naby the third copy in existence . Rubinstein ...
... CP / M from a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School , Gary Kildall , the same man who had sold comput- ers with John Torode to Omron . CP / M was brand new . Kildall had given Bar- naby the third copy in existence . Rubinstein ...
Page 138
... CP / M , for Control Program / Monitor . CP / M underwent further development , although it already provided the software needed for storing information on disks . Some of CP / M's enhancements arose under curious conditions . While he ...
... CP / M , for Control Program / Monitor . CP / M underwent further development , although it already provided the software needed for storing information on disks . Some of CP / M's enhancements arose under curious conditions . While he ...
Page 272
... CP / M . Could Gates sell that to them as well ? Gates patiently explained that he didn't own CP / M , but that he would be happy to phone Gary Kildall and help arrange a meeting . Gates later said that he called Kildall and told him ...
... CP / M . Could Gates sell that to them as well ? Gates patiently explained that he didn't own CP / M , but that he would be happy to phone Gary Kildall and help arrange a meeting . Gates later said that he called Kildall and told him ...
Contents
The Voyage to Altair | 25 |
The Miracle Makers | 55 |
Homebrew | 97 |
Copyright | |
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Paul Freiberger,Michael Swaine No preview available - 2000 |
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Altair Apple Computer Apple II Apple's BASIC began Bill Gates Bill Millard Bob Marsh building Byte calculator California called chip circuit board Computer Club computer companies ComputerLand Corporation CP/M Cromemco customers David Ahl dealers device Digital Research disk drive Dompier early Ed Roberts employees engineers Espinosa Eubanks Faber Fylstra garage Gary Kildall Gates and Allen Godbout hardware Heiser hobbyists Hoff Homebrew IMSAI industry Intel knew language later Lee Felsenstein Lohse machine magazine mainframe Markkula memory boards Micro microcomputer microprocessor Microsoft Mike Markkula minicomputer MITS MITS's operating system Osborne Paul Allen personal computer Pertec Photo courtesy Popular Electronics problem Proc Tech Processor Technology puter Radio Shack retail Roberts Rubinstein sell semiconductor Shrayer Silicon Valley sold Solomon soon Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak Tandy Terrell things thought told took users VisiCalc wanted Wigginton Woz's Xerox
References to this book
Western Sunrise: The Genesis and Growth of Britain's Major High Tech Corridor No preview available - 1987 |