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The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer
SmartDrive, DiskCopy. it s life at Redmond in the DOS era
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Interview Everyone remembers their first time. It might be Commodore-flavoured, or carry a whiff of Sinclair about it. For former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, it was a TRS-80 in a 1979 Radio Shack.
Plummer now runs a YouTube channel stuffed full of nerdery, though decades ago he played a role in the rise of Microsoft, contributed to MS-DOS, wrote Windows components familiar to all, and stuffed Microsoft Bob into XP s box.
The Register had a chat with him about how it all began.