History of Microsoft -- 1978

For Microsoft, 1978 begins with the announcement of the Microsoft COBOL-80, which conforms to the 1974 ANSI standards for 8080, Z80, and 8085 microprocessor systems. We establish our first international sales office and fiscal year sales for the first time exceed one million dollars . Oh and of course, it was the year of Andy Gibb.

April 11, 1978
Microsoft COBOL-80, which conforms to the 1974 ANSI standards for 8080, Z80, and 8085 microprocessor systems, is announced.

November 1, 1978
Microsoft establishes its first international sales office in Japan, ASCII Microsoft.

November 6, 1978
Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft EDIT-80, a random access, line oriented text editor for 8080 and Z-80 systems. EDIT-80 is the first microcomputer editor with random line access to floppy disk files.

December 1, 1978
Microsoft announces Microsoft Macro-80 for 8080; Z-80. The 14K assembler is the fastest macro assembler currently on the microcomputer market, assembling over 1000 lines per minute.

December 1, 1978
Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft FORTRAN-80 Compiler for TRS-80.

December 31, 1978
Microsoft's year-end sales exceed $1 million at $1,355,655. There are 13 employees.

The Albuquerque office's Coca Cola bill for Calendar Year 1978 totals $566.50.

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[f0ofyBunny]

@Pinman1973 No, the ideas were out there. They just marketed them. BTW, Apple didn't invent the gui, the mp3Player, or the tablet pc. They just marketed it better.

Grow up.

[DrPhilMusic]

bill gates dressed like gilligan from gilligans island.

[jrzy49]

Bill Gates wasn't lucky. He had great foresight.

[adonis4441]

Bill Gates is a NERD!

[spookycelery]

History of Microsoft.. Beginning song is from iMovie for Mac?

[albert6539]

The man is a genius

[noniweb]

unwahrscheinlich was passiert ist seit her ;-) :-) ... unbelievable !!

[2111thekiller]

oh my god it has the blue screen of death that why i move to linux

[f0ofyBunny]

@Pinman1973  Apparently.

[Pinman1973]

@f0ofyBunny Who said they stole it from Apple ? Gui was invented by NASA !

I already did grow up lamer !