Microsoft-Paul Allen

[Bill Degnan]

When I was teaching at the U of Delaware I helped make a computer exhibit
containing 4 of the Microsoft logos:
http://www.vintagecomputer.net/UofDelaware/microsoft/large_MS_poster_final.pdf
Bill

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 6:01 PM 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?
>
>
> 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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