The terms of the contract with ALL the computer customers was if he dropped his price to one vendor, he would have to refund the difference to all other vendors. And his 8086 was not ready yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 8:03 AM Jay Maynard <jaymayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not so sure about Kildall...anyone who snubs a business meeting with > IBM to go flying (a worthy endeavor in and of itself) isn't businessman > enough to compete with Jobs and Gates. > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 3:05 AM Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Very interesting if one-sided interview. He gives Steve Wozniak very little > > credit although Woz really was the inventor and Jobs the salesman in the > > partnership. > > > > I read Sculley's autobiography many years ago (From Pepsi to Apple). It > > doesn't describe events quite the same way. > > > > Nevertheless, good that it has surfaced at a time where nobody gets sued > > for defamation. > > > > After I left IBM in 1979 I wrote some applications on the Apple II. It was > > a challenge and from an electrical engineering point of view, it was poor > > with a weak power supply that ran the CPU, Floppy drives which caused the > > screen to wobble when operating. > > > > At the same time Apple were turning out the IIE, there was a host of other > > nicer systems, such as the Cromemco System 3 and Altos 8000 which ran CP/M > > and MP/M and had a more robust construction. > > > > It was a shame that Gary Kildall died so young, he would have been a great > > competitor for Jobs and Gates. > > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 9:28 AM Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > > > > A friend shared this with me and I thought it was just extraordinary. It > > > is not "mainframe" but his comments on what happens when the marketeers > > run > > > a tech company will resonate with many of us. It’s a fairly long read. > > It’s > > > a transcript of a long interview done for a TV show – only a few minutes > > > were actually used – by Bob Cringely, and thought to be lost. Steve Jobs > > > was at the time (1995) running NeXT, which he was to sell to Apple a > > month > > > later. It is a fascinating read. > > > > > > https://sameerbajaj.com/jobs/ > > > > > > Charles > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > > > -- > > Wayne V. Bickerdike > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Jay Maynard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
