Woah - sorry for getting in so late on this one, but I've been
at Sun training all week.  Microsoft's major contracts were
almost exclusively for programming languages up until
the days of the IBM PC.  MS didn't do any operating systems
until then - and even when they did the OS thing for IBM, they
did it so that they wouldn't lose their language business.  o_O

Nick Reinking





dusk at ravendusk.org, on 08/03/2000 03:31:50 PM
To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org @ PMDF
cc:  
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20067] ancient computers

On Thursday, August 03, 2000, Philip C Mendelsohn <mend0070 at tc.umn.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Timothy Wilson wrote:
> 
> I don't qualify as a geezer, but I do remember what you're talking
> about.  I think you'd be referring most likely to the MITS Altair.  I
> think it was 4K of memory, or maybe you could deck it out with 16K.  As
> far as cost, I don't recall -- I want to say about $800, but can't recall
> for sure.
> 
> MITS was located in Albuquerque, NM.

IIRC, writing an OS for the Altair was one of Microsoft's first major
contracts.  I believe they even worked on site in Albuquerque for
awhile.

John

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