{"id":7240,"date":"2013-04-03T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2013-04-03T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T01:38:14","slug":"apple-dos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/03\/apple-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57577597-37\/the-untold-story-behind-apples-$13000-operating-system\/\">Daniel Terdiman<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2013\/04\/03\/apple-dos\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13579_3-57577597-37\/the-untold-story-behind-apples-$13000-operating-system\/\"><p>On April 10, 1978, the contract was signed. For $13,000 -- $5,200 up front, and $7,800 on delivery, and no additional royalties -- Shepardson Microsystems would build Apple&rsquo;s first DOS -- and hand it over just 35 days later. [&#8230;] For its money, Apple would get a file manager, an interface for integer BASIC and Applesoft BASIC, and utilities that would allow disk backup, disk recovery, and file copying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apple_DOS\">Wikipedia<\/a> has more information.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Terdiman (via John Gruber): On April 10, 1978, the contract was signed. For $13,000 -- $5,200 up front, and $7,800 on delivery, and no additional royalties -- Shepardson Microsystems would build Apple&rsquo;s first DOS -- and hand it over just 35 days later. [&#8230;] For its money, Apple would get a file manager, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,407,406,295],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-appledos","tag-appleii","tag-history"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7241,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/7241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}