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In 1981 I followed the news as best I could pre-internet. I devoured my copies of Byte and Creative Computing as soon as they arrived in the mail. It was fun to read this article layout all the history that I was only distantly aware of back at the time it all happened.

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At the time IBM was worried that there wasn’t enough software available for the PC because it was not compatible with CP/M operating system for 8-bit processors t the time. They announced an external submission program to lure software developers. Here's the contents page:

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