Subj : Re: Halt and Catch Fire
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : MRO
Date : Thu May 12 2022 15:41:27

  Re: Re: Halt and Catch Fire
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed May 11 2022 06:53 am

 >
 >  Gary Kildall, the co-host with the beard, is the guy who famously
 >  missed an appointment with IBM and missed the opportunity to
 >  sell CPM/86 to them for the IBM PC.

he didn't miss it. his wife was going to handle the meeting.
he was on company business at another location.

His wife didn't want to sign the standard NDA without her husband.  she should have known they had the NDA, so gary and his wife dropped the ball on that one.
ibm would have just bought them out.  i'm not sure if that's what they wanted.

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