History of Microsoft -- 1977
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- For Microsoft, 1977 marks the beginning of an official partnership between Paul Allen and Bill Gates, we hire our first official employee and the FORTRAN-80, Microsoft's second language product finally becomes available.
February 3, 1977
An official partnership agreement between Paul Allen and Bill Gates is executed.
July 1, 1977
FORTRAN-80, Microsoft's second language product, is available at the prices of $500 for an individual license. OEM licenses are available.
September 13, 1977
Microsoft receives new computers from Commodore, Radio Shack and Texas Instruments.
September 26, 1977
The Albuquerque facilities are expanded by three new offices in the same building.
November 18, 1977
Microsoft terminates an exclusive license to MITS for Microsoft's BASIC product and announces availability of versions for the 8080 and Z-80 microprocessors.
1977 Revenue/Headcount:
The 1977 Calendar Year revenue totals $381,715, headcount is 9.
In 1977 I was 7 years old learning how to completely take the engine out of 67' SS Camaro. I could completely overhaul carburetors, knew how install points and set the timing on any engine. During that time my dad repaired IBM selectric typewriters and computers. About that time IBM developed a motherboard to reduce the space and energy usage of hard drives. The goal was a more conservetive approach for energy consumption. Electrical usage was an important factor in powering the huge refrigerator sized hard drives for IBM. I would be practicing to use my dads tools to fix car radios. I fully assembled a gas powered model plane, completely rebuilt a lawnmower engine and carburetor intake. Began learning what bits were.
shark - you say your father repaired IBM Selectric typewriters. Huge respect to him. They were lovely, but complicated. Loved them.
I hope Bill Gates has a Commodore PET in his classic computer collection by now.
What platforms did Microsoft Fortran run on at the time?
Some people are just blessed...
How come Bill Gates has hardly aged? I was bright eyed n bushy tailed using MsDos 3.1. My hair turned grey using Windows 95 & it all fell out using Winblows millennium. I got sacked from my job using 2000 as I took a shotgun to my monitor to stop that bloody dancing paper clip screwing me up. I had a coronary by pass using Vista. Now I just laugh & the gigabytes of memory Winblows 7 uses for an operating system & they say I have senile dementia =@|
Dookiedolf - your comment is 10 years old, but still hilarious😂😂😂
The show forgot about chuck E Cheese's was made
$13 k???
world trade centre huh#?
Come on. MS parlayed their partnership with IBM into being the supplier of the OS that was delivered with all IBM compatibles. Their contracts gave them a few dollars on every IBM compatible sold. That is how they became huge, wealthy and dominant. Until the second coming of Jobs, Apple either never made a product that would sell to a true mass market or else never succeeded. Their own OS software has never run (legally) on anything but their own products AFAIK.
Kenneth Florek - come on!!! Apple Computers sold a few million Apple II computers BEFORE the IBM PC was even announced.
an Ibm compatible computer clone was the key to their success.
@@friendlypiranha774 After 9 years, I suddenly have 2 replies, although my comment is not about the video. (There is no way, from the video, you would know Microsoft ever got into the OS business.) What RUclips did, some time after my comment, was detach all replies from the comment they once attached to (to accommodate a switch to better software, they said.) Anyone who can deduce what my comment was a reply to is ahead of me. IAC I was already 31 in 1977, so how I would see the history of mass market computers naturally is different from any version you might get from seeing some videos. I agree that, the way historians think, they would count the Apple II as a milestone before the IBM PC. However, it was only the escape from captivity, by cloning the IBM PC, that brought down prices, over many, many years, so that a computer could possibly be in a price range so that it could ever become a mass market item, like a TV. Computers were still pretty useless even then, compared to the price, so still not a true mass market phenomenon. Apple intentionally isolated themselves from the ever enlarging revenue stream, the OS, that Microsoft made themselves impossible to get around.
no wonder microsoft succeeded where apple didnt. its obvious watching this the money isnt going to be in the hardware, its just about supplying the software. If apple realised this earlier they could have become the domiannt company because they had better software years before microsoft
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@TheGhostOfPainsey back in 77 that was an unheard of amount of storage space.