To: Proud_texan
Another bad deal is when Digital Research let the OS deal get away from them over a NDA. Word was Gary Kildell blew off the big meeting with IBM.
I remember when I managed one of the first retail computer stores in Boston in 1980 where we sold Apple and we had former DEC programmers crack open the CP/M code to have it run on Apple so we could sell Wordstar along with Visicalc to accounting firms.
That was a lawsuit dodged.
22 posted on
06/10/2014 6:34:57 AM PDT by
AU72
To: AU72
"Word was Gary Kildell blew off..."
IIRC, he actually FLEW off -- in his private plane -- instead of meeting with IBM.
Not the brightest decision he ever made...
26 posted on
06/10/2014 7:10:35 AM PDT by
DJ Frisat
(Proudly providing the NSA with provocative textual content since 1995!)
To: AU72
Amazing the amount of contortions that used to be required just to get stuff done. And how crummy the software really was.
But at the time I sure liked it.
29 posted on
06/10/2014 7:39:42 AM PDT by
Proud_texan
(Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then. - PK Dick)
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