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The Computer Chronicles - Gary Kildall Special (1995)

The Computer Chronicles

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Stewart Cheifet hosts a 1995 retrospective and tribute to personal computer pioneer Gary Kildall, the creator of CP/M.

Hello everyone! Thanks for watching and sharing all these great episodes of The Computer Chronicles. I'm glad most of you like the channel. Special thanks to Steven Whiting who informed me this episode was missing (I thought I had it uploaded but couldn't find it on my channel). Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: archive.org/details/computerchronicles

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What people say. Recommended as a beautiful tribute and retrospective on Gary Kildall and his major influence on the development of the personal computer.

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On “Gary Kildall”

If you want to know how was he IRL I recommend watching Computer chronicles. Gary Kildall Special: link to this video Whole playlist of episodes, its like watching non-fiction 'Halt and Catch Fire': link

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On “APL\B5500: The Language and Its Implementation – Gary A. Kildall (1970) [pdf]”

I really enjoyed this retrospective on Gary Kildall. He was a really interesting guy, and I'll echo the sentiments of my sibling commenter-- a major influence on the development of the personal computer. link to this video

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On “How to Start with CP/M”

If you want to dive deeper and watch a beautiful tribute to Gary Kildall, you can find the tribute episode of the Computer Chronicles (which he cohosted for years) on Youtube: link to this video