CP/M creator Gary Kildall’s memoirs released as free download

The year before his death in 1994,Gary Kildall-inventorof the early microcomputer operating system CP/M-wrote a draft of a memoir, Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry." He distributed copies to family and friends, but died before realizing his plans to release it as a book.

This week, theComputer HistoryMuseum in Mountain View, with the permission of Kildall's children, released thefirst portion of that memoir. You can download ithere.

Tekla S. Perry at IEEE Spectrum

Invaluable writing, and I'm so glad it's getting published.