IBM needed a quick way to reset and reboot, so Bradley created a three-key combination that would do the trick, picking “a set of keys that would be difficult to hit by accident” (ibid.). It’s the one thing that everybody seems to know about” (University of Dayton, 2012).Īccording to Bradley (2011), as IBM developed its PC, “lots of new programs were arriving and being tested and as frequently happens, they would quit running and nothing could revive them” (p. Bradley says that developing Control-Alt-Delete “was a five-minute job in my 35-year career. Before Bradley, this key sequence had no special meaning. These days, Bradley is most famous for inventing Control-Alt-Delete, the “three-key sequence for reset/reboot on the IBM PC” (Bradley, 2011, p. He received numerous patents for his work on the PC - patents that earned IBM millions of dollars independent of the company’s PC sales. He writes that, in developing the PC, “I was responsible for the basic input/output system (BIOS), otherwise known as engineering software” (p.
Dave Bradley, a former IBM employee who worked at the company’s Boca Raton site, to find out.īradley - one of 12 engineers who worked on the original IBM personal computer (PC) - shared several stories about working with the famed business magnate and co-founder of Microsoft.īefore we focus on Gates, let us consider Bradley himself, the inventor of Control-Alt-Delete.īradley (2011) helped develop IBM’s first PC, which at the time vastly outsold its rivals. What was it like for employees of IBM to work with Bill Gates in the 1980s, when Gates was in his twenties? In April 2022, we interviewed Dr.
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