Gary Kildall's Computer Connections ON SALE ¿?
Floppy Software
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http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/6176143
Lot 88
Gary Kildall's Computer Connections 1/50
Title: Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the
Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry
Author: Kildall, Gary
Description: [4], 232, [27] pp. 11¾x8, boards lettered in gilt. No. 24
of 50 copies. First Edition.Initialed by Kildall on the preface/
limitation page, also inscribed by him "To Lisa & Jackie, Merry
Christmas, Gary." One of the legendary rarities in the literature of
the personal computer, revealing the story of its development and and
the many personalities involved, told by one of the key players. Gary
Kildall, founder of Digital Research (DRI) and creator of the computer
language CP/M, wrote the book to tell his side of the early days of PC
development, and what he considered the theft of his ideas by Bill
Gates and Microsoft. The trigger for writing the book was apparently
his pique when the University of Washington asked him, as a
distinguished graduate, to attend their computer sciences anniversary
in 1992, but gave the keynote speech to dropout Gates. In this memoir,
which he distributed only to a few friends, he said of Gates "He is
divisive. He is manipulative. He is a user. He has taken much from me
and the industry..." Gary Kildall died in July of 1994, barely half a
year after the private publication of this book, the consequence of a
fall at a Monterey restaurant, either by accident or due to assault,
the circumstances are unclear. There are no copies of this book listed
WorldCat as being in institutional libraries, and no copies are listed
by American Book Prices Current as having sold at auction.
Heading: Place Published: Austin, TX
Publisher:
Date Published: 1993
Condition report
Fine condition.
Al Kossow
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> This is true?
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Anyone want to log on see what it sold for in 2009?
Probably the closest any of us will ever get to seeing a copy.
Floppy Software
There is a link to an image with the book PREFACE, written by Gary
Kildall.
I think it is very interesting to read about the book contents.
http://archive.liveauctioneers.com/archive4/pbagalleries/18251/0088_2_lg.jpg
"The question most often asked of me is "did you really go flying the
day that IBM came to Digital Research, and Bill..."
Maybe I'm wrong.
See you.
EX DE,HL
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>Gary Kildall's Computer Connections 1/50
Maybe it will make its way to Bill Gates bookshelf....