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Date   : Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:11:23 +0100
From   : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: ReTuLa, a Tube ULA

On 17/04/2010 16:25, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
> In article <h2hd8834d21004051417u58e283c0i713601366c06bda1@...
> m>, Alex Taylor <zeem.uk@...> writes
> 
>> These are very wise words indeed - I recall a story, although I can't
>> remember the specifics, of someone in the US who amassed an enormous
>> collection of CP/M related software
> 
> Could that have been Gary Kildall, who allegedly was out flying his
> plane when IBM came visiting to discuss putting CP/M on its new PC?

Don Maslin.  He had a huge and well-known collection of system disks for 
all kinds of CP/M systems, which he'd make available to collectors who 
needed such, but when he died his wife refused to let anyone have access 
to it.

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Pete                                           Peter Turnbull
                                               Network Manager
                                               University of York
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