Microsoft in photos: November 1979
In 1979, Microsoft moved its office from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Bellevue, Washington. Photographer John Marshall was on a tour in the new Microsoft office in November 1979 and, with the permission of Bill Gates, took a number of photographs, now he is looking for a buyer for the entire collection of transparencies, an agency and a publishing house for licensing photos.
The pictures show the equipment Microsoft worked with in 1979. I tried to identify some computers from the photos. If you recognize any of the cars - please write about it in the comments.
DECSYSTEM-2020 is the 36-bit mainframe of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 and ceased to exist as a separate company in 1998 after the takeover of Compaq.
On this desktop is a Heathkit H88 computer based on the Zilog Z80 processor: for this processor Microsoft in 1979 developed a version of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, and a year earlier - Microsoft Macro-80 assembler and Microsoft EDIT-80 text editor.
On the table are computers of the NEC PC8000 series . Devices with a keyboard - PC8001 computers built on the basis of a Z80A-compatible processor. Under the monitor and to the right of it without a case is the NEC PC8031B floppy disk reading module.
The gray machine on the right on the table is the TRS-80 with a Zilog Z80 processor and 4 to 16 kilobytes of RAM. Tandy began selling computers of this series in 1977 through a network of Radio Shack stores. It was the first home computer for less than six hundred dollars. Isaac Asimov participated in the advertising campaign of these computers . In this photo, allegedly SuperBrain manufactured by Intertec Data Systems, introduced in mid-1979. It is equipped with two Zilog Z-80 processors. A computer cost about three thousand dollars.
The pictures show the equipment Microsoft worked with in 1979. I tried to identify some computers from the photos. If you recognize any of the cars - please write about it in the comments.
DECSYSTEM-2020 is the 36-bit mainframe of Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 and ceased to exist as a separate company in 1998 after the takeover of Compaq.
On this desktop is a Heathkit H88 computer based on the Zilog Z80 processor: for this processor Microsoft in 1979 developed a version of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, and a year earlier - Microsoft Macro-80 assembler and Microsoft EDIT-80 text editor.
On the table are computers of the NEC PC8000 series . Devices with a keyboard - PC8001 computers built on the basis of a Z80A-compatible processor. Under the monitor and to the right of it without a case is the NEC PC8031B floppy disk reading module.
The gray machine on the right on the table is the TRS-80 with a Zilog Z80 processor and 4 to 16 kilobytes of RAM. Tandy began selling computers of this series in 1977 through a network of Radio Shack stores. It was the first home computer for less than six hundred dollars. Isaac Asimov participated in the advertising campaign of these computers . In this photo, allegedly SuperBrain manufactured by Intertec Data Systems, introduced in mid-1979. It is equipped with two Zilog Z-80 processors. A computer cost about three thousand dollars.
