Richard Dalton (editor)

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Richard Dalton was a former editor of the Whole Earth Software Review. He was president of Keep/Track Corporation (Falmouth, Massachusetts)when he died of prostate cancer on Oct. 24 2016, age 76.[1] For nine years he was a research affiliate of the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, California specializing in emerging technologies and their business and social implications. He was a featured columnist for InformationWeek and Windows Magazine, and also wrote a column for Byte.com. He has recently spoken at Comdex, the Groupware Users Exchange, the InterClass European Conference and the Federal Government Group Decision Technology Conference.

In the early 1980s, Dalton advocated the use of inexpensive CP/M computers such as the Kaypro II and Morrow Designs MD-1 for businesses.[2]

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  1. ^ "Richard D. Dalton".
  2. ^ Brand, Stewart (1984). WESC. ISBN 9780385191661. Richard Dalton's CP/M strategy is an interesting one. Use the bargain Kaypro or Morrow machines for highly specific business applications and they'll quickly pay their way and you won't care about the software world passing you by.
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