Gary Kildall

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01/01/1972	The 4004 was Intel's first microprocessor in the world.	He was hired as a consultant to create a programming language for the device,he developed the PL/M (Programming Language/ Microprocessor).It was to run the IBM 360 computer and generate excutable binary code that then burned into the ROM memory of the 4004 system.
03/23/1972	The designer of the 8008 computer microprocessor.	Marcian Ted Hoff designer of the 4004, also made the first 8008, 8-bit microprocessor. He was again hired to develop PL/M for Intel's 8008 computer.
05/01/1972	Gary Kildall	Gary recieved a Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Washington. While in school he worked on the computer system called DEC PDP_ 10
12/01/1972	Joined the Navy	While in the Navy he was appointed to instruct in computer science at the Post- Graduate School in Monterey California. At the school he purchased an Intel 4004 microprocessor chip set for his students to experiment with.
05/15/1973	Intel's 8 inch floppy disc.	Shugart gave Intel a sample 8 inch floppy disc. Gary and his students then built a controller interface to an Intellec-80. They wrote a program that was called CP/M ( Control Program/ Micro computer) which was enabled to read and write files to and from the disc.
11/01/1980	The computer of the 80's	The first cp/m was made by him.
08/01/1999	Created in 1999 was the IMS LTD. REAL/32
06/15/9761	Discharged from the Navy.	He became a full time consultant, using the name Intergalactic Digital Research. With the help of Torode they designed floppy disc systems for several micro computer manufacturers.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
11/23/1970 to 11/23/2011	Gary Kildell