See also: SCP

Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a company which manufactured computers with Seattle and which was one of the first to manufacture computing systems based on the Processeur Intel 8086.

SCP was partly made up of high-school pupils coming from the close communities which welded and assembled the computers. Some of them worked later for Microsoft.

It is at the twenty-two years age, in 1978, that Tim Paterson was engaged by Rod Brock which had at the time the company SCP . In 1980, Tim Paterson created, in four months hardly, the Operating system QDOS, known later under the name of 86-DOS.

In December 1980, the Microsoft company sought an operating system for the future PC of IBM. It thus made it possible to a third company to manufacture this system, for 50.000 $.

Company SCP was thus retained and before even the launching of QDOS, Microsoft repurchased the rights for 50.000 $; SCP thus showed it later fraud, because Microsoft would have forgotten to specify that IBM was the customer of the order (although it seems that it was a right of Microsoft related to the trade agreement). Microsoft thus arranged a compromise with company SCP, in 1986, by paying 1 million additional dollars.

Thereafter company SCP disappeared, because the market of the processors Intel 8086 was dominated by the computers PC compatibles.

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Seattle Computer Products had domiciled in 1114 Industry Dr. Seattle WA 98188, as one can see it on the professional calling card of Mr. Rod Brock, with the title of “president/managing director”.

Bonds and references

• Tim Paterson describing its role in the history of DOS