Sunday, February 01, 2004
Geek Hero (Part 2)
The man who invented Ctrl+Alt+Delete retired from IBM Corp. on Friday after 28½ years. In 1980, David Bradley, now 55, was one of 12 people working to create the IBM PC.
The engineers knew they had to design a simple way to restart the computer should it fail. Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has helped bail out millions of PC users.
Imagine if he got a royalty fee every time that code was run!
What a guy! But who was the brains behind "Insert" button? I'd like to punch his lights out!
The man who invented Ctrl+Alt+Delete retired from IBM Corp. on Friday after 28½ years. In 1980, David Bradley, now 55, was one of 12 people working to create the IBM PC.
The engineers knew they had to design a simple way to restart the computer should it fail. Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has helped bail out millions of PC users.
Imagine if he got a royalty fee every time that code was run!
What a guy! But who was the brains behind "Insert" button? I'd like to punch his lights out!
