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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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In the fall of 1981 I wrote a program on an Osborne to catalog floppy disks. I submitted my program an it was accepted. TI called it the Floppy Disk Librarian, but IBM said floppy disks were to be called diskettes. And so in fall of 1982 it was released as the Diskette Librarian.

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