Micro Five system / Microdata connection

g-wright at att.net wrote: Micro V and Micro 5 were all the same. They started with an 8086 with 2 users capability and expanded to a better basic and hardware and the 8085 when it came out. They could have run CPM but they had their own O/S that they sold for business purposes. For what it's worth they were financed by Ken Allen among others, who also was a founding backer of Microdata in 1968 or 69. I don't recall exactly when they were founded but it was in the 80 to 85 time frame. I'll ask some of the culprits at a reunion coming up and try to post more accurate info. There was a special agreement between Microdata and Micro V not to sue over the "Micro" in the name, due to the close relation. There was no other connection other than the founders that I know of of a business nature. Soon after the founding of Micro V, Microdata was acquired by McDonnell Douglass and began to change to other identities (MDCSS and Novadyne eventually) away from Microdata. One of the original engineers is John Pitcher, who originally was from Microdata. The first President was Cliff Myers. Both were key players at Microdata and there is a strong geographic relation to Microdata as well as the people being from there. I believe that John Pitcher has a system he saved which has all the software on 3 1/2" floppies, and should probably try to get it to save away, since he had most of the software on that format which is much easier to handle than the original 8" systems. Jim