DosMan Drivel

I was recently given a copy of Paul Allen’s autobiography, Idea Man . I haven’t read it yet, but I’ve skimmed the parts where I had a role....

Seattle Computer Products adapted DOS to an array of floppy disk systems. We used North Star, Cromemco, and Tarbell floppy disk controllers,...

The original IBM PC had a clock speed of 4.77 MHz. The 8088 processor inside was actually specified to run at 5 MHz, so how did IBM end up a...

Seattle Computer Products (SCP) introduced their 8086 16-bit computer system in October 1979, nearly two years before the introduction of th...

I set to work writing an operating system (OS) for the 16-bit Intel 8086 microprocessor in April of 1980. At that point my employer, Seattle...

Gary Kildall’s CP/M was the first general-purpose operating system (OS) for 8-bit computers. It demonstrated that it was possible to pare d...

Paterson v. Evans lawsuit dismissed In his book They Made America (Little, Brown & Co., 2004), author Harold Evans revives claims that ...