Actually thats not correct. IBM went to Kildall and tried to bully him into signing over so much of the rights to CPM as part of the deal that he refused. He himself suggested they talk to Bill G, in the end neither were willing to sign it all over to IBM so it struck a deal with both of them offering to let the market decided which was best. The IBM machines could be bought by Joe Public with either CPM or DOS. Kildall foolishly assumed this meant they would be priced the same and that the market would decide. At the time CPM was considered to be the "Serious" option of the two, and IBM added CPM as an option but for $250 ish extra. DOS as the less hardcore version was a mere $30. The market voted with its wallet.
An old Uni friend and I have a great deal going, i fix up and harden her laptop, and she does my tax return. Takes me 20 mins to fix her machine, and it takes her 20 mins to do the tax (she is an expat tax advisor for big big big company ( you know 'em )so she can do them in her sleep. If I had to do my own rtn it would take ages and I still wouldnt be 100% sure I had it correct - same for her if she tried to fix up her laptop. The price for me is mutual time saved:) That and a tax bill of $0 that is 100% legal.
I once picked up a PC from a council tip (dump) and that contained full patient record, drug charts, names, addresses, even patient photographs. It was from a local mental institution apparently. In order to prevent this material becoming public they had taken the well thought out step of unplugging the IDE cable. Marvellous. That got formatted and ended up on Ebay. Seems the person responsible was doubley stupid as it seem he was throwing away a high end P2 (this was a fair few years back folks) because the HDD was full. Hey ho!
Isn't it the Koreans who always seem to be dying from 72 hours of non stop gaming, forgetting to eat sleep or drink.
Try googling for korean+gamer+death - seems to happen quite a bit.
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Halp. This is driving me nuts.
But anyway, I was going to say that journalists also fail at that level too.
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The guy you are looking for is Julius Sumner Miller... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcZyW-6-5o Physics is his business!
Actually thats not correct. IBM went to Kildall and tried to bully him into signing over so much of the rights to CPM as part of the deal that he refused. He himself suggested they talk to Bill G, in the end neither were willing to sign it all over to IBM so it struck a deal with both of them offering to let the market decided which was best. The IBM machines could be bought by Joe Public with either CPM or DOS. Kildall foolishly assumed this meant they would be priced the same and that the market would decide. At the time CPM was considered to be the "Serious" option of the two, and IBM added CPM as an option but for $250 ish extra. DOS as the less hardcore version was a mere $30. The market voted with its wallet.
An old Uni friend and I have a great deal going, i fix up and harden her laptop, and she does my tax return. Takes me 20 mins to fix her machine, and it takes her 20 mins to do the tax (she is an expat tax advisor for big big big company ( you know 'em )so she can do them in her sleep. If I had to do my own rtn it would take ages and I still wouldnt be 100% sure I had it correct - same for her if she tried to fix up her laptop. The price for me is mutual time saved :) That and a tax bill of $0 that is 100% legal.
I once picked up a PC from a council tip (dump) and that contained full patient record, drug charts, names, addresses, even patient photographs. It was from a local mental institution apparently. In order to prevent this material becoming public they had taken the well thought out step of unplugging the IDE cable. Marvellous. That got formatted and ended up on Ebay. Seems the person responsible was doubley stupid as it seem he was throwing away a high end P2 (this was a fair few years back folks) because the HDD was full. Hey ho!
Isn't it the Koreans who always seem to be dying from 72 hours of non stop gaming, forgetting to eat sleep or drink. Try googling for korean+gamer+death - seems to happen quite a bit.