18 Oct
2018
18 Oct
'18
3:06 p.m.
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On Oct 18, 2018, at 15:01, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Thank you for the correction.
Yes, companies often change their names.
Gary Kildall founded Intergalactic Digital Research.
George Morrow founded Thinker Toys, which later became Morrow's Micro Stuff, and
eventually Morrow Designs.
Greenberg and Grant founded Kentucky Fried Computers, which became North Star (due to a
lawsuit from a chicken place), and eventually NorthStar
Can you pinpoint when the microcomputer businesses lost their sense of humor?
When the Lawyers got involved?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Murray McCullough via cctalk
wrote:
I would like to make a correction: Paul Allen helped to create
Micro-Soft not MicroSoft as I had written. When trying to preserve
computing history it's really not permissable to make such an
error.(It's the prof. in me!)
Happy Computing!
Murray :)
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