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Did you know... that Gnat Computers was one of the first to license the CP/M operating system, paying only US$90 for a perpetual license before the price skyrocketed to tens of thousands of dollars?
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... that Gnat Computers was one of the first to license the CP/M operating system, paying only $90 for a perpetual license before the price skyrocketed to tens of thousands of dollars? Source: "For instance, Thomas Lafleur, who helped found an early microcomputer company called GNAT Computers, made one of the first corporate purchases of CP/M. For $90 he gained the right to use CP/M as the operating system for any product his com- pany developed. Within a year, a license for CP/M cost tens of thou- sands of dollars. ... Dorothy later said that a 1977 contract with IMSAI was a turning point. Until then, IMSAI had been purchasing CP/M on a single-copy basis. Its ambitious plans to sell thousands of floppy-disk microcom- puter systems prompted marketing director Seymour Rubinstein to negotiate seriously with Gary and Dorothy. He finally purchased CP/M for $25,000. It was a lot more than the $90 that GNAT had paid" (Freiberger & Swaine 2000, p. 175).
@DigitalIceAge: Good article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:47, 4 February 2023 (UTC)