RE: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT

The cartridge that came with the 2600 was COMBAT. It had a tank game and a biplane game. If they added another cartridge, it must have been in the later years. And the whole package cost $150

1. Who started Atari, what else did he start?
2. What Graphical computer preceeded the Mac?

CP/M Control Program for Microcomputers - It was the first big OS. 2.5 What was the first Big Time Word processor that eventually lost out to Word?

3) What company made the first "Portable" (luggable) computers?

The first MAC (128K, 400K floppy) had no handle, I had one(still have it)
4) What was "Special" about the inside of the Mac case? 5) Who wrote QDOS?

sigh, I agree, the good ol' daze....

>>> ThaterW_at_telergy.net 08/02/01 06:57AM >>> On Thu, 2 Aug 2001,Boivin, Patrice J scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

->Was CP/M the OS that Bill Gates bought just before making his big
deal with
->IBM? Can't remember.
->
->Regards,
->Patrice Boivin
->Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
->
-> -----Original Message-----
-> CP/M [or is it CPM i've seen it written both ways.]
->
->

AFAIK, no. it was an OS from a small local company called QDOS [Quick and
Dirty Operating System] if i'm not suffering from too much bit rot.

CP/M was the other OS in contention.

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