Charles Petzold was born on February 2,1953 and is an American programmer and technical author on Microsoft Windows applications.
10 Facts About Charles Petzold
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Charles Petzold is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and was named one of Microsoft's seven Windows Pioneers.
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Charles Petzold graduated with a Master of Science in Mathematics from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1975.
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Charles Petzold had an interest in electronic music and in 1977 started building electronic music instruments out of CMOS chips.
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In 1979, Petzold started building a computer-controlled digital electronic music synthesizer based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor.
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Charles Petzold purchased a two-diskette IBM PC in 1984 for $5,000.
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Charles Petzold showed the staff some small assembly-language programs he had written.
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Charles Petzold was getting so much freelance work from PC Magazine that he was able to quit his job.
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Jonathan Lazarus, who contracted with Microsoft, recruited Charles Petzold to write some articles.
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Charles Petzold told some people at a Microsoft-related function that he really enjoyed writing this type of article.