It's old enough that I'd put money on DEC. Any takers on that.

Do you have your own api key? Been a while, but that's the most common problem.

I set up your API key and secret. However, I couldn't verify if it was working with the API.

And if that happened, you might not get back on. The line might be busy, you might have run out of time or logins for the day..

If you had some idea of who was on the BBS and they had Call Waiting, you could give them a ring to knock them offline. Very bad manners but teens will be teens.

They always end up using vitamin P to get profitable.

The real question is: how long will it take to go from a sign of low quality to a sign of high quality?

Lots of non native to English speakers around here too, lowers the odds.

It aired on BBC World Service a long time ago. Apparently some guy wrote in from India to complain that robots (ie Marvin) shouldn't be employed in place of human actors. I wonder if he is still around to see how _that_ turned out.

Gates had a version of DOS ready in 6 weeks, while DR was still planning DOS. MS got things going much faster.

No. He ran out and acquired 86-DOS, from Seattle Computer Products. It's easy to have something when you buy it already complete.

And DR had CP/M-86.

DRI did not have CP/M-86 at that time which is the reason Tim Paterson developed 86-DOS in the first place.

CP/M-86 was first expected to be delivered in 1979, so I assume it existed in one form or another prior to that, shipments pending hardware availability. I wouldn't expect DRI to fund the adaptation without a cooperative manufacturer unless there were a significant installed base.

MS still had to make modifications to Tim Patterson's 86-DOS before it shipped as PC-DOS 1.0 - source: Paul Allen's Idea Man autobiography.

Of course - the PC didn't exist when SCP made 86-DOS. The same way as with CP/M, the hardware interface had to be written.

Same thing, he did the needful to have something to give ibm.

> DR was still planning DOS

No, DR was planning CP/M-86.

I feel like I'm going down this thread posting corrections, but when trying to thrash out the details, I think it's vital to get the details right.

DR was about 3Y late with CP/M-86. The 8086 shipped in 1979, IIRC -- I was only 12 -- and there was no CP/M yet. The IBM PC shipped in 1981. Still no CP/M.

Tim Paterson, author of QDOS, went on record as saying he'd never have bothered if CP/M-86 had actually shipped.

I've done IT a long time, and I once was sent to a gleaming new building.. In an Indiana corn field. In the middle of nowhere, for Indiana. They made very small number of parts (or mostly one) for the military. It was probably an F35 part. An entire bespoke business for a part...

I have people skills damnit!

Rust, the new "I use Arch, BTW"