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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 11:46 Steve Ballmer And in the meantime, there was a company here in Seattle called Seattle Computer Products that had a little CPM clone.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 34:20 David Rosenthal Yes, Microsoft bought QDOS, Quick and Dirty Operating System, from Seattle Computer Products.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:27 Ben Gilbert And so, enter Seattle Computer Products.
- ▶ 1:43:37 David Rosenthal Despite being named Seattle Computer Products, I think this company was actually based in Taquilla, Washington, a programmer named Tim Patterson had just written a sixteen-bit operating system for the eighty-eighty-six that Intel had just…
- ▶ 1:44:04 David Rosenthal What was this company, Seattle Computer Products?
- ▶ 1:44:16 David Rosenthal And so when Intel now has announced this new 16 bit processor generation that they're coming out with, well, Seattle Computer Products, they want to sell motherboards and have them ready for 16 bit.
- ▶ 1:45:03 David Rosenthal They know Seattle Computer Products.
- ▶ 1:45:17 David Rosenthal So they work out a deal whereby Microsoft pays Seattle Computer Products 25,000 dollars for the rights to adapt and sell QDOS to the one unnamed
- ▶ 1:45:34 David Rosenthal He ends up leaving SCP computer products and joining Microsoft.
- ▶ 1:45:45 David Rosenthal Later on, before this all gets announced and the PC ships, Microsoft would pay Seattle computer products another 50,000 dollars for full rights to own
- ▶ 1:46:21 David Rosenthal Seattle Computer Products definitely did not write DOS as DOS becomes.
- ▶ 1:47:23 Ben Gilbert Also, David, I gotta say, I just looked it up, the address of Seattle Computer Products on the original business card for Seattle Computer Products, where I presume QDOS was written, the space is available, so I know where, uh, our next…