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Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a Tukwila, Washington, microcomputer hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of computer systems based on the 16-bit Intel 8086 processor.
86-DOS was created because sales of the Seattle Computer Products 8086 computer kit, demonstrated in June 1979 and shipped in November, were languishing due to the absence of an operating system.
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Mar 8, 2014 · Seattle Computer Products -- History. Seattle computer products (SCP) was located on Industrial Drive, Seattle, WA., and was founded by Rod Brock in the mid 1970's. Initially they made S-100 memory boards employing local Seattle area high-school students to assemble them.
He went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer. He designed the hardware of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M operating system on an Apple II .
Seattle Computer Products developed the operating system 86-DOS. It would be bought by Microsoft and turned into MS-DOS, otherwise known as simply "DOS". To my knowledge, there are 7 copies of 86-DOS that have been dumped onto the internet.
Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a Seattle, Washington microcomputer hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of computer systems based on the 16-bit Intel 8086 processor.SCP began shipping its first S-100 bus 8086 CPU boards to customers in November, 1979, bout 21 months before IBM introduced its Personal Computer which was ...
Seattle Computer Products was a computer manufacturer and operating system developer. History. Seattle Computer Products was founded by Rodney Maurice Brock in 1978. Tim Paterson, a twenty-two-year-old who was hired in June 1978, designed a board for the Intel 8086 processor.
