Fred, Have you ever seen any actual "Kentucky Fried Computers" anything? Ads? Marketing lit? Hardware? Letterhead? Incorporation application?
I've looked in the past and have never turned up anything. Thanks, Bill -----Original Message----- From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fred Cisin via cctalk Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 6:01 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen Thank you for the correction. Yes, companies often change their names. Gary Kildall founded Intergalactic Digital Research. George Morrow founded Thinker Toys, which later became Morrow's Micro Stuff, and eventually Morrow Designs. Greenberg and Grant founded Kentucky Fried Computers, which became North Star (due to a lawsuit from a chicken place), and eventually NorthStar Can you pinpoint when the microcomputer businesses lost their sense of humor? On Thu, 18 Oct 2018, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > I would like to make a correction: Paul Allen helped to create > Micro-Soft not MicroSoft as I had written. When trying to preserve > computing history it's really not permissable to make such an > error.(It's the prof. in me!) > > Happy Computing! > > Murray :) > -- Fred Cisin [email protected] XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com PO Box 1236 (510) 234-3397 Berkeley, CA 94701-1236 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
