Bit of CP/M trivia needed

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Bit of CP/M trivia needed
>   From: "Barry Watzman" <Watzman at neo.rr.com>
>   Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:30:35 -0400
>     To: <cctech at classiccmp.org>
>
>
>I can't say for sure if Gary was the first to use the term BIOS, but it was
>being used by Gary in CP/M long before 1978 -- I'd say in late 1975,
>probably, and definitely by 1976.  A friend bought a copy of CP/M in 1975 (I
>know it was 1975, because I was in Atlanta at the time with the friend (who
>happens to be Dale Heatherington, a partner in the modem firm of DC Hayes,
>for whom the "Heatherington patents" were named), and I moved from Atlanta
>to Charlotte in late 1975).  In 1976, Imsai was offering CP/M version 1.3
>with the dual-Calcomp disk system.  All of the documentation for all of
>these used the term BIOS, as did the source code for the BIOS' supplied with
>CP/M on disk (for the Intel development system).  The BIOS resided on disk,
>as part of the system tracks, it was the last 7 sectors of the 2nd track
>(track 1).

I can say publicly in 1976 I'd heard it used by none other than.  The event 
was PCC'76 down on the NJ boardwalk.

Allison