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Are there any examples of a big tech company that started with sales and not the product?

• xerophtye 13y ago
  Microsoft :P can't get any bigger than that. They sold DOS to IBM even before they had anything like that
  • jwdunne 13y ago
    If I remembering reading correct, MS also sold their version of BASIC to Altair before actually having physical access to an Altair.
    • xerophtye 13y ago
      If i remember correctly, they wrote BASIC for it, (language design) and then pitched it to altair, who then gave them an actual altair to implement it on, no? Btw, wasn't programming without actual access to a PC, pretty common back then too? (even decades later, when u had decent computers). From what i hear from my dad, programmers wrote it out on paper, and sent it to the data entry people who would type it in, run it, and report any bugs etc. Heck, imagine debugging without access to a PC!!
• zequel 13y ago
  MS-DOS?