Pearly Gates

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Oh, and, I may have to hand in my Dedicated Follower of Apple card after this, but thanks are due to spyinthehaus for pointing me to this. OMG I <3 g33k boys!!!

Off to re-read Pirates of Silicon Valley slash now.

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It's quite possible he had a prototype - folklore.org implies they were planning to give a standalone prototype to M$ in the autumn of 1981.

This page on folklore.org is an interesting read, too.

But the upshot is yes, M$ would have had several prototypes before release in order to develop software.