Microsoft-Paul Allen

[Wayne S]

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> On Oct 18, 2018, at 15:01, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> Thank you for the correction.
> 
> Yes, companies often change their names.
> 
> Gary Kildall founded Intergalactic Digital Research.
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> 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?
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>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
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>> 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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