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@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 :) > > > > -- > Fred Cisin ci...@xenosoft.com > XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com > PO Box 1236 (510) 234-3397 > Berkeley, CA 94701-1236 > >