Microsoft-Paul Allen

[William Sudbrink]

Fred,

Have you ever seen any actual "Kentucky Fried Computers" anything?
Ads?  Marketing lit? Hardware? Letterhead?  Incorporation application?

I've looked in the past and have never turned up anything.

Thanks,
Bill

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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin
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Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 6:01 PM
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Subject: Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

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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