it's quite possible that there was a business meeting instead of a personal job interview
ok, well you can find plenty of internet links showing that IBM contacted MSFT because they needed an OS, and they thought MSFT had one.....
so i don't think your recollection that it was a personal job interview is correct....... it was more of a meeting for a consulting job for a whole company......
cs.uop.edu
In July 1980, IBM began Project Chess, recruiting 12 engineers to develop and build a prototype microcomputer. The code name for the computer was "Acorn". Acorn, to become popularly known as the IBM-PC, represented IBM's reluctant entry into the still-small microcomputer market. IBM first contacted Gary Kildall about using his CP/M microcomputer operating system, which Kildall copyrighted in May 1976, for the Acorn. However, Kildall was not interested, so IBM went to Bill Gates. IBM didn't know it, but Microsoft had no operating system to sell them. |
