[Elecraft] Spilling the HF beans .....

[Thomas Butchers]

When I worked for Dominion Semiconductor (Toshiba/IBM joint venture) one of
the IBM engineers related that same story to me. Basically Gates didn't have
anything but knew where to get it. Even as an 18 year old geek is was a
shrewd businessman.

Tom kf4yyd

> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Brian Lloyd <brian-wb6rqn at lloyd.com>
> 
> >
> > On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Fred (FL) wrote:
> >
> > > And Bill Gates empire was launched, and IBM got
> > > its first DOS contract from Gates - and IBM's PC was
> > > launched.
> >
> > The way I remember it, IBM decided they wanted a version of CP/M for
> > their new Intel 8086-based system and went to Digital Research.
> > Somehow the folks at DR managed to really annoy the folks from IBM.
> > (I heard it that Gary Kildall's wife wouldn't deal with them because
> > Gary was out-of-town.) So IBM turned to the small company that was
> > supposed to provide the BASIC interpreter for the new "PC": Microsoft.
> >
> > Bill Gates of Microsoft assured IBM that Microsoft had a replacement
> > for CP/M-86 even though they really didn't. (Ah, vapor-ware has been
> > with us for a LONG time.) Microsoft then quickly purchased the rights
> > to a CP/M lookalike called QDOS. That became IBM's PC-DOS which
> > Microsoft then renamed MS-DOS. The rest is history.

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