2026-09-20 17:36 UTC
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@liquid_clear@mastodon.social 2026-09-20 17:39
@woodooprod@c.im the first OS i ever used, on a Toshiba T100 when I was a few years old
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@provuejim@techhub.social 2026-09-21 04:03
@woodooprod@c.im I started my company by writing a visual text editor program for CP/M, which I called PolyVUE. As I recall, a few hundred copies were sold, mostly through Lifeboat Associates, a mail order software distribution company. I still have a few PolyVUE manuals I kept as souvenirs. I met Gary Kildall several times at industry events,and also his wife Dorothy who helped run Digital Research in the early days. It was a small community in those days, but we were all excited about the new world we were building. (Of course no one anticipated spam, phishing and crypto!)
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@Tipa@gamepad.club 2026-09-21 13:31
@woodooprod@c.im Hey, I worked on a version of CP/M! (CP/M-68k) ;-)
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@60sRefugee@spacey.space 2026-09-21 14:29
@woodooprod@c.im If I recall correctly, the hope was that CP/M would provide the basis for interconvertability between different PC operating systems: IBM PC/ Apple and even Commodore.