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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Gary Kildall

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page profile of influential innovator, Gary Kildall, a pioneer in the computer age whose vision and ideas created the first disc operating system for a microcomputer.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America? Gary Kildall

For Students 9th - 10th
A technology industry urban legend claims that Kildall went flying rather than meet with IBM, thus causing IBM to market Microsoft's inferior operating system, changing the course of computer history. The story is untrue.