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Seattle Computer Products

Seattle-area hardware maker that wrote 86-DOS and sold it to Microsoft.

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SCP

Seattle Computer Products wrote 86-DOS for its own 8086 computer kit. Microsoft licensed it in December 1980 for $25,000 and bought all rights the next summer for $50,000, then supplied it to IBM. SCP later sued Microsoft and settled out of court for almost $1 million.

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  • 86-DOS 1980 Scholarship & press 1

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  • IBM–Microsoft operating-system deal sold 86-DOS to Microsoft Scholarship & press 1

    SCP later sued Microsoft, claiming it had concealed the IBM connection, and settled out of court for almost $1 million.

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  1. 1980 Seattle Computer Products developed 86-DOS
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  1. Microsoft MS-DOS early source code, Computer History Museum, 25 Mar 2014. Scholarship & press
    Microsoft proposed licensing “86-DOS”, which had been written by Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for their 8086-based computer kit because the 16-bit version of CP/M was late.
    Microsoft originally licensed 86-DOS in December 1980 for a flat fee of $25,000. By the next summer they recognized the importance of owning it and being able to license it to other companies making IBM-PC clones, so they purchased all rights for an additional $50,000.
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