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
