American personal computer company that created QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) — which Microsoft purchased for $50,000, renamed MS-DOS, and licensed to IBM — making Seattle Computer Products the unknowing originator of the operating system that made Microsoft dominant.
Created the operating system that Microsoft licensed to IBM and the entire PC industry — without understanding what they were selling — representing perhaps the most consequential underpriced technology transaction in history: $50,000 for what became the foundation of a trillion-dollar company.
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