“You could have been Bill Gates...”
And he was damn lucky to have NOT been Bill Gates. The only upside to being Bill Gates for him (as he was already loaded), would have been the ability to buy Facebook and other left wing media outlets and clean them up, as Musk did with Twitter.
...but it’s unlikely that would have been a priority with him.
Was lucky to spend an hour or so talking with Gary on set-up day at one of the Philadelphia computer shows in the 70s. Very nice guy and clearly one of the early innovators.
Interesting story. The guy still did well in selling his company for 120M which was a lot of money back then .. still is. Too bad he died young.
Thanks for the thread - very interesting.
Wow, what a story. Maybe they should make this into a movie?
Bill Gates is a little punk asswipe compared to what this guy accomplished.
certain former dec employees still insist that gates stole code from dec when he interned there.
it’s not too hard to imagine...pirating seems to occur everywhere.
Back in the day, I built many z80 machines that ran CPM. Most were based on the STD bus.
I was working on industrial control hardware and software. We used CPM machines as development environments for embedded z80 controllers.
Very handy stuff, before the original IBM PC and AT made the scene.
Before that, we used the Intel MDS (microprocessor development system). It included ICE (In-Circuit Emulation) of the 8086 and other processors. Floppy disk storage. Beat the hell out of paper tape.
Fun, exciting times!