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"The year before his death in 1994, Gary Kildall—inventor of the early
microcomputer operating system CP/M—wrote a draft of a memoir, “Computer
Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal
Computer Industry.” He distributed copies to family and friends, but died
before realizing his plans to release it as a book.
This week, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, with the permission of
Kildall’s children, released the first portion of that memoir. You can download
it here.
Wrote Scott and Kristin Kildall in an introductory letter: “In this excerpt,
you will read how Gary and Dorothy started from modest means as a young married
couple, paved a new path for start-up culture, and embraced their idea of
success to become leaders in the industry. Our father embodied a definition of
success that we can all learn from: one that puts inventions, ideas, and a love
of life before profits as the paramount goal.”
Later chapters, they indicated, did “not reflect his true self,” but rather his
struggles with alcoholism, and will remain unpublished."
Via Esther Schindler.
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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