<#1 Jobs and Wozniak were actually working at Atari when they designed the
<Apple 1 (and was the resource for most of the parts they used), in fact, i
<was the revenues from Jobs' project Breakout that financed the trip to
That must have been later after HP!
<#2 IBM came to Microsoft looking for an operating system for the IBM PC,
<not the other way around. Microsoft originally sent IBM to Gary Kildall
<(developer of CP/M) who refused to meet with them. IBM returned to Gates
<who, in turn, bought the OS from Kildall himself for $50K and then license
<it back to IBM. These facts were totally inaccurate in the film.
Way off.
First Kildall didn't take the IBM meeting seriously and his wife working
with layers could net get to agreement on nodisclosure that IBM wanted.
Gary didn't refuse to meet with IBM, they "dropped in" and it was not
convenient.
Second Gates bought Qdos (a lofing of CPM1.3, that was copyright infringed)
from Seattle Computer for $50k and granted a unlimited license back to them.
He would later reneg on the deal. The copyright problem would result in
the rapid design by virgins and issue of the buggy MSDOS/PCDOS V2.
<#3 Bill's hair was never that blonde.
In 1978 when I met him at PCC78 it was light but very dirty blonde!
Allison
Received on Tue Jun 22 1999 - 22:20:59 BST